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THE SIXTH LAW OF NATURE 

AND 

Responsive Sixth Sense in Man : 

AS A MEANS OF HEALTH. 



BY 



MANLEY HALL. 



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PREFACE, 



It was originally the author's purpose to write 
a book commencing perhaps with astronomy and 
gradually proceeding through the various correl- 
ative scientific subjects culminating in a solution 
of the great problem of all time, — "What is Life?" 
that favorite theme of elevated intellects, known 
under such expressions as— "The Unknown: The 
Unconditioned: The First Cause: The Absolute: 
The Eternal: The Supreme: The Infinite:" etc. 

But realizing the immense length of time neces- 
sary to the completion of such a work and the 
precariousness of individual physical existence, he 
has finally decided to write and publish a succes- 
sion of smaller books similar probably to the 
present one, each limited to and expounding a 
distinct and separate idea in connection with the 
whole. 

The contents of the first of possibly five books, 
are now respectfully submitted to the reader. 

Pawtucket, R. I., October, 1901. 




CONTENTS. 

CHAPTER I. 

PAGE 

Introduction. i 

The purpose of the senses is to preserve the 
human. If an individual and particular ac- 
quaintance between man and the necessary- 
utility of his senses were indispensable, his 
"education" would have caused him to be 
annihilated years ago. His senses provide 
for and protect him, and are his best friends. 

CHAPTER II. 

Sense in the Human is a Continuation of Law in 

Nature. i 2 

Internal, invisible, and immaterial laws, the 
study of which, though neglected in the past, 
will be the highest mental occupation of the 
future. Philosophy fondles where science 
fears. 

CHAPTER III. 

The Sixth Sense in Man Harmonizes Him With 
His Remaining Senses, and With His Sur- 
roundings. 1 6 



ii CONTENTS. 

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Harmony is man's constant companion, daily and 
nightly, ever by his side as a faithful servant. 
Man's unacquaintance with Harmony binds 
him to its constantly operative power; when 
he comprehends the law of Harmony, he will 
adjust its power to his service. 

CHAPTER IV. 

Man's Every Permanent Characteristic and Capa- 
bility Originates In, and Remains Subject To, 
Natural Law. 20 

Each different and particular location has its 
peculiar habits of speech. "The scenes of 
our childhood" proclaim themselves in our 
speech all our lives. 

CHAPTER V. 

The Origin of the Different Races of Mankind is 

an Eternal Sequence of Natural Laws. 26 

Each country forms its own race of people by 
nature's silent and persistent operations, after 
discovering the tendency we may rely upon 
the ultimate. 

CHAPTER VI. 

Our Characteristic Inclinations are Formed Be- 
fore we are Personally Responsible, and 
when we Become Responsible it is Sometimes 
Wise to Reform Them. 35 

"Original Sin" is with our ancestry: which fact 
will be nullified as parental responsibility is 



CONTENTS, iii 

?AGE 

recognized and appreciated. The greatest 
"honor" we can confer on our "father and 
mother" is, persistently endeavoring to out- 
live their transmitted weaknesses. 

CHAPTER VII. 

Medical Theories are not in Line With Nature's 

Laws. 43 

There is a strong anti-medical tendency abroad 
among the people, and among the intelligent 
of medical practitioners. 

CHAPTER VIII. 

Man may Cultivate Gradually and Enslave Him- 
self Finally to any Habit, Good, Bad, or In- 
different, AND BY THE SAME PROCESS REVERSED, 

Liberate Himself. 5 2 

As the parents may be seen in the child, the boy 
may be seen in the man; the one is* the seed- 
time, the other is the harvest. 

CHAPTER IX. 

The Ultimate Harmonization of Humanity, as felt 
and Foreseen by Great Souls of the Ages, 
Has Been Aped by Many; "Christian Science" 
Is One of the Apers. 58 

"Many shall run to and fro, saying, lo ! here, and 
lo ! there;" but the fulfillment of this prom- 
ise "shall come as a thief in the night." 



i? CONTENTS. 

PAGE 

CHAPTER X. 

Every Human Experience is Enclosed in the 

Duality, — Body and Soul. 66 

All external possibilities are encompassed by Life 
and Harmony. Every other term is reduci- 
ble or traceable to the Quadrinity, — Body, 
Soul, Harmony, and Life. 

CHAPTER XL 

Electricity is Positive to Material and Negative 
to the Human: Hence, Individual Contact 
with Electricity is Injurious. 70 

Man expresses the constructive principle, and 
electricity expresses the opposite. 

CHAPTER XII. 

Hypnotism is Positive to Animal and Negative to 
Human: Therefore, the Practise of Hynotism 
is Retrograding. ' 75 

The animal possessing the power the strongest is 
the conquering animal; the man possessing it 
the weakest is the intelligent man. 

CHAPTER XIII. 

The Method of Healing by "Laying-On of Hands" 

is both Ancient and Modern. 79 

The "power of healing" by this system is limited 
to super-abundant health in the "healer." 

CHAPTER XIV. 

To Say That "Faith" Will "Cure" Physical 
Disease, is Equivalent to Saying That Word 



CONTENTS. v 

TAGE 

is Deed: That Imagination is Fact: That Men- 
tal Weakness is Mental Strength: That the 
4 'M i nd" is Independent of Physical Conditions, 
Environments, and Necessities: and Thus, 
Equal With (Though in Fact Only an Un- 
speakably Infinitesimal Fraction of the Eter- 
nal Fruit of) the First Cause. 85 

Humanly speaking-, "he who runs may read" that 
mind and body are mutually co-ordinate: 
that the mind expresses the moods of the 
soul, and the body expresses the motions of 
the soul: that both body and mind are subject 
to the necessities and desires of the soul: and 
that the soul cannot change "one jot or 
tittle" in reference to either body or mind, 
except in absolute accord with nature's laws 
and nature's fruits. 

CHAPTER XV. 

Spiritual Things are a Continuation of Natural 
Things, and to Speak of "Super-Nature" is 
Absurd. 91 

Great reflective intellects have "compared heaven- 
ly things with earthly things," and vice versa, 
because they are comparable; the one is em- 
braced by the other, in the great circle of 
universal perfection. 

CHAPTER XVI. 

"Spiritual Healing" is a Continuation Under 

Another Name of "Laying-On of Hands." 99 



vi CONTENTS. 

PAGE 

As in everything else so in this, man generally 
names a thing as he comprehends it; hence, 
the various names of the art of healing, 

CONCLUSION. 104 

The only object in publishing the ideas contained 
in this book is, to remind the strong that they 
have the power to assist the weak, and to re- 
mind the weak of their duty to be strong; 
that all may be happy in Universal Harmony, 
each as his brother's keeper. 



The Sixth Law of Nature and Responsive 
Sixth Sense in Man. 



CHAPTER I. 
Introduction. 

All faculties, senses, instincts or capabilities 
known to man, and in nature, are a continuation of 
the same number of eternally established natural 
laws, concentrated and totalized in man. The fact 
that he is the ultimate,the climax or consummation 
of each and every law of nature, in the universal 
circle of life, constitutes his differentiation from, and 
inclusion of, infinite mundane precedence. 

Man as "king of nature all," is in absolute sub- 
jection to every subject of his kingdom. As the 
prosequence of nature, he is dependent upon all 
natural laws for his very existence and general 
well-being. Thus, we gain from nature the ideal 
of constitutional unity. Our King, Lords and 
Commons; President, Senate and Congress; — in 
man as King or President; the principal or higher 
laws, — Light, Air and Water as Lords or Sena- 
tors; Food, Cleanliness and Climate, — the compara- 



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2 NATURE IS CAUSE: HER FRUIT IS EFFECT. 

tive lower laws, — as Commoners or Congressional. 

Man naturally reaches out for this ideal be- 
cause it is a component part of his being from 
nature, where it reigns unusurpedly supreme. 
Hence, we shall derive from nature the ''model 
government/' — when the King comprehends his 
subjects as his subjects support their King; then 
the "smart politician" will be a possibility of the 
past. 

Not until man estimates the laws governing 
the fruits of the earth which sustain him, can he 
truly have the "dominion" which is eternally se- 
quenced. It is vain for him to attempt and expect 
/to succeed in anything which he has not derived 
directly through, by and from nature, physically, 
mentally or spiritually: morally , there are things 
of value which he may learn. 

Man can only appreciate and enjoy the beau- 
ties of the fruits of nature by and through his birth 
from nature. He could not recognize any beauty 
in any human being, for instance, except by the 
correlative ability of such recognition from natural 
law, in his own composition and disposition, — 
"Beauty is in the eye of the beholder." 

The more developed and advanced the indi- 
vidual, the sooner he recognizes and appreciates 
corresponding development and advancement in 
others. An undeveloped person, on the other hand, 
is apt to be blind to the greater advancement of 
his fellows, and content with comparative undevel- 
opment of thought, word, action and association 



' 'GENIUS IS COURAGEOUS SELF-SACRIFICE. 3 

The Artist must be satisfied with the appre- 
ciation and patronage of the artistically disposed; 
the Musician with the musical; the Poet with the 
poetical; the Thinker with the thoughtful; and they 
are in direct harmony with a natural law, — "Birds 
of a feather flock together." 

The real signification of the appellation or 
epithet "genius," is one who would not under any 
pressure, stress or suffering, cater to a lower order 
than himself; the one who does so because of 
"necessity," is not a good and safe human speci- 
men; but the one who will cater to a lower taste 
for mere gain of any kind or degree is a clog and 
an injury to human progress, — he who would be 
greatest among men let him serve his fellows the 
most, and expecting no "reward," he will not be 
disappointed. 

Man, in his birthright from natural laws, has 
in him by practise and cultivation or under stress 
of sudden emergency, the nobleness of the horse 
and the meaness of the snake; the courage of the 
lion and the cowardice of the gorilla; the cun- 
ning of the fox and the simplicity of the lamb; the 
stamina of the elephant and the laxity of the cow ; 
the hastiness of the dog and the patience of the 
donkey; the music of birds, the poetry of seasons, 
the provision of bees, the engineering of moles, the 
industry of ants, etc., ad libitum. 

If man had not climaxed in himself the princi- 
ples and essences of each and every species of vege- 
tation, fruit and animal, light, air, water, and every 



4 NATURE, NATURE S FRUITS, AND MAN, ARE CORRELATED. 

possible product of the earth, including the earth 
itself, neither the earth nor any of its fruits could 
have any influence upon nor any sustenance or 
nourishment for him. The principle and essence 
of the sun's light and heat, the products of the soil, 
mineral, vegetable and animal divisions of mundane 
existence, are each and all daily human materiali- 
zation by which only is human existence possible. 

Man enjoys the light of day because he is im- 
mediately connected by law with that light; he en- 
joys his night's repose because he has obeyed the 
law of daily activity, and is still in accord with 
natural law during sleep. He enjoys his breakfast 
of ham and eggs only because the same law which 
produced the ham and eggs is continued and re- 
peated in him. He enjoys his vegetable dinner be- 
cause the same law which caused the cabbage, 
potatoes and onions is the source of him. He en- 
joys his evening meal of fruit, bread and butter for 
the same reason. 

There is nothing known to man, nor ever can 
be known, which will nourish and sustain him in 
health or heal him in sickness, except the sequen- 
tial principles and essences of his naturo-human 
correlation. 

Every human possibility physically, mentally 
and spiritually is somewhere and somehow pre-ex- 
istent in nature, which alone makes it possible in 
man. 

All beyond is centralized here, and all here is 
emanation of beyond. 



The Five Senses* — Their Uses, Abuses, and 
Simple Methods of Preservation* 

Everyone knows of five senses in the human; 
this knowledge is imparted in public schools; hence 
even children are acquainted with it. However, 
it is one thing to impart knowledge of existent 
fact, and another to teach its utility. The senses 
will be of far more value to us when we are fully 
aware of the vital importance of their constant nur- 
ture and cultivation. 

We may take as instances any or all of our 
senses, and we shall find upon examination of our 
habits, how really careless we are of the impor- 
tance of their preservation and vigor. The im- 
mediate advantages accruing from the full posses- 
sion of our senses are self-protection and self-pres- 
ervation: — to know what will benefit and what will 
injure us; to be ever conscious of friends and of 
foes; — when fully comprehending them they are 
guides to our necessities and our comforts. 

If the reader will allow the premise that ex- 
cept by a voluntary or involuntary exercise of our 
physical senses we would not be conscious of a 
physical existence, he will at once see the impor- 
tance of a very definite degree of development and 
preservation of these natural connections with uni- 
versal laws; will see the misfortune of the decay or 
loss or partial loss of even one of our senses, and 
will wisely turn his attention to the fact that they 
are indispensable, true and life-abiding friends. 

First in order take the sense of Sight, — per- 



THE FOUNDATION OF GOOD EYE-SIGHT IS PURE BLOOD. 

haps the most valuable one we possess: how often, 
sometimes unconsciously and sometimes care- 
lessly, do we assist in its destruction ! Sudden 
changes of eye-exposure from heat to cold 
and from cold to heat; allowing ourselves to re- 
ceive blows on the eyes; straining the sight by too ' 
much exposure to glaring light or sudden changes 
often repeated from extreme light to extreme dark- 
ness. The foregoing are the simplest and princi- 
pal tendencies to injury of the eye and sight, and of 
course conversely, their opposites tend to the pres- 
ervation of both. One essential to good eye-sight 
should never be forgotten, and that is, pure blood. 
It may seem circuitous to say that what we 
breathe, eat and drink, and our health generally, 
have a direct influence upon our eyes and sight, 
yet it is none the less common every-day fact. 
Good, plain nourishing food, good air and water, 
all these things have a positive and direct 
bearing upon the general physical health, and the 
general physical health has a direct influence upon 
the eye-sight. Those who know the secret of good 
general health know the secret of good eye-sight. 
Poor health, tired, dark and poisoned blood and 
an occupation in a glaring light or heat, to which 
the eyes are constantly exposed, are the principal 
and surest enemies of good eye-sight; while good 
general health, blood which is the genetic of good 
plain food, fresh air and pure water and a vig- 
orous circulation, (which latter is the fruit of 
regular rest and exercise) no more light than is 



COLD PARALYZES, WARMTH REVIVES. 7 

necessary for that we may happen to be employed 
with, and that light coming from behind, are eye- 
sight's best friends. Again, what a true friend is 
good Hearing, and how neglected and sometimes 
abused are the organs of this sense. To sit near 
a hot fire and dry the very nature and life out of 
the ear or ears, then going out into a cold frosty 
atmosphere, — a change perhaps ol a considerable 
number of degrees colder, — the, ear or ears hav- 
ing lost their strength in the previous heating, and 
become in a degree paralyzed, stagnation of circu- 
lation being the consequence of such partial paral- 
ysis, disease the consequence of stagnation and 
"catarrh" progressively resulting; too proud to 
cover the ears in winter's cold, sleeping with the 
head exposed to a draft at night or any other time, 
near a window or outside wall, where the cold and 
frost come in from one to four or five feet in win- 
ter; all these are primary causes of deafness. 

The fact may be patent to all that a healthy 
person with vigorous circulation can do things 
which another not so blessed would be unable to 
do; — but no matter how strong and vigorous the 
individual, if he is not careful he will find by ex- 
perience that we do not value health so much as 
when we have lost it. 

It is at best but a very weak and unprofitable 
excuse to say, — "We have inherited such and such 
bodily weaknesses from our parents;" let us out- 
grow these physical shortcomings, and thus truly 
"Honor our father and our mother." 



8 BACTERIA AND IMPURE ATMOSPHERE ARE ONE. 

The sense of Smell, how valuable, and yet how 
little valued comparatively. The great Pasteur 
of France demonstrated the possibility of every 
bad smell consisting of myriads of living ravenous 
animals, invisible to the natural eye; hence, every 
time we find a bad smell it is vitiation in some 
degree, detrimental to health, and should be 
avoided as much as possible. The sense of Smell 
is so valuable in this respect that every one should 
obey its warnings constantly, rather than be proud 
of the fact that, u A smell does not trouble them/' 

We may accustom ourselves to clear atmos- 
phere until we can detect the slightest wrong, and 
on the other hand, we may accustom ourselves to 
wrong smells until they are scarcely objectionable. 
But what about the loss or gain in real lasting 
health ? Just think that our blood is made directly 
from what we breathe, or at least, this is nature's 
finishing touch in the process. What kind of 
blood, therefore, must we necessarily have, if we 
do not obey our sense of Smell and change, or 
move out of objectional atmospheres? 

The sense of Taste, — how little some seem to 
respect it. If their food is properly cooked it is 
not sufficient, they are not content to indulge and 
enjoy the natural appetite for food, — hunger, neces- 
sity or healthful desire; they must add all kinds of 
condiments, until really the food itself has no indi- 
vidual taste which they can either appreciate or 
relish. 

First, this "seasoning" causes a false appetite, 



LUXURY IS THE FATHER OF NECESSITY. 9 

the indulgence of which crowds the system, even- 
tually terminating in disease; second, "use becom- 
ing second nature," these forcing stimulants grad- 
ually lose their intended energy; hence, luxuries 
are only such for a limited period, after which 
they become necessities. 

We have been accustomed to hear and repeat 
to anyone who may happen to be sick with certain 
troubles, "Take care you do not get cold;" and it 
may seem strange to adopt just the opposite rule 
of advice; nevertheless, there is more benefit to be 
derived from — "Take care you do not get heat" 
than from its opposite. It is after heating we take 
cold, and on returning to heat we are conscious of 
having taken cold. 

Take, for instance, a piece of flesh meat; how 
tough and tenacious it is before it has been heated. 
We can allow it to freeze whole days and even 
weeks and it retains almost all its vitality, — but 
once cook or only half cook it, and keep it some- 
time even moderately warm, how soon it becomes 
bad, every careful housewife knows. 

In the Australian and London meat trade, the 
animals are killed in Australia, prepared and 
shipped to London, and although they require 
to pass through the hottest place on earth — the 
tropics — the meat is sold in London and enjoyed as 
good, six or seven weeks after killing, and after 
passing through the most trying conditions 
possible, excepting the fact that it is kept at a very 
low temperature by refrigeration. 



10 FROST PRESERVES, HEAT DESTROYS. 

"The lowest forms of germ life — bacteria— are 
able to survive the most intense cold. Tempera- 
tures of over three hundred degrees below zero do 
not kill them. After exposure to such cold they 
begin to multiply again as soon as placed under 
favorable conditions." 

If cold were the thing principally to avoid, 
then winter might be "death" instead of a time of 
recuperation for returning spring. All this goes 
to prove that in cold we retain our vital tenacity 
and in heat we lose it; so, in future let us rather 
advise "beware of taking heat " 

Last, but not by any means least, comes the 
sense of Touch: — that sense which informs us of 
too much heat or too much cold, when any part 
of our wearing apparel is preventing free circula- 
tion, how much work to do and corresponding rest 
to have, when so-called enjoyments are beneficial 
and when not. All these things and more belong 
to a proper guarding of this valuable sense It is 
sometimes surprising, however, how much it is 
neglected, and how comparatively little we suffer 
even after such protracted negligence. 

We have the wonderful construction of our 
physical systems to thank for not having to suffer 
sooner for our ignorance or carelessness. Just as 
surely, however, as our bodies endure a large 
amount of neglect before they succumb, so surely, 
when once down, do they require a correspond- 
ingly great amount of care and nursing before 
recuperation. 



MAN IS ABSOLUTELY REDUCIBLE AND TRACEABLE I T 

TO SENSE OR LAW. 

As the management, cultivation and preserva- 
tion of our senses constitute our totality, it is ex- 
tremely important that we guard and value the 
vigor of these things; — "An ounce of prevention is 
worth a pound of cure." 



CHAPTER II. 

Definition of the Term Sense and its Relation 
to Nature* 

We now approach the principal object of this 
work; — the Sixth Sense in Man. But previous to 
enlarging upon the subject, it is perhaps best to 
devote some time and space to imparting a clear 
comprehension of the abstract signification of the 
term "Sense/' necessarily mentioned so often. 

In the natural operation of our senses, three 
things require considqration and specific defini- 
tion, — sense, channel of sense, and that which 
senses; — law, medium of law, and that which is 
cognizant of law. Any one sense will be found 
sufficient to instance, and so we will take the sense 
of Sight. Sight is a continuation of one of the laws 
of nature eternally established — Light: the channel 
of sight is the human Eye with its wonderfully in- 
intricate mechanism, and that which sees or be- 
comes cognizant of such fact, is the inner Self or 
Soul. 

Sight as a faculty, instinct or attribute of the 
inner self or soul, is no more a ^'material sens^" 
than is the inner self or soul material The body 
is the shell or house of the inner and more real 



THE TERMS LAW AND SENSE ARE SYNONYMOUS. I 3 

self, — the soul, and it is through and by the 
appointed physical organs or channels of the 
senses that the soul becomes cognizant of external 
things. Considering the word Sense to be synon- 
ymous with the word Law, we acquire the truest 
conception of its signification. 

The highest example we can have of the intrin- 
sic definition of the word law is that expressed in 
space. There, an endless number of bodies, no 
two of them the same, are held in position and 
controlled in their axial and orbital revolutions by 
Law. These bodies are the sequence, fruit or ef- 
fect of the self-same absolute law which now con- 
trols them, in their indescribably perfect and beau- 
tiful revolutions and evolutions. 

According to a scientific calculation this planet 
upon which we live weighs ''sixty sextillion tons;" 
the planet Jupiter is fourteen hundred times as 
large as our earth; there are about one hundred 
and fifty-six bodies revolving around the centre 
of our system, — the Sun; the Sun is seven hundred 
times as large as all of them combined, and the 
great steller sun Sirius is twelve hundred times 
larger than our Sun. 

Reader, study x^stronomy and bow your soul 
in silent admiration of eternal, infinite, absolute 
and supreme Law, and from that soul-posture rise 
to your responsibility as part and parcel of the un- 
speakably great and limitless effect: which is the 
best means of acquiring an idea of the immense 
power of the First Cause. We can contemplate 



14 LAW IS ABSOLUTE AND INDEPENDENT OF MATERIAL. 

Law in the abstract and experiment with it con- 
cretely, and yet there are those who cannot see 
beyond the material even after such demonstrative 
experimentation. All we may expect to do with 
these individuals is to lead them gently as far as 
we can and leave the remainder to natural 
growth. Law is the food and nourishment of the 
intellect, as material is the food and nutriment of 
the bodv, and both are traceable or reducible to 
the same thing, — Life. 

After placing a kettle of water over a hot fire, 
the water gradually becomes heated, not because 
the coal in itself is hot, but because, under proper 
conditions, a law has been connected between the 
fire and the water ; and if the fire should be 
extinguished, it is reproducible at any other time 
under similar conditions ; proving that the same 
law is still absolutely potent. While the fire is 
aglow we see and know that there is physical life 
expressed ; but when the fire is "out" we have not 
this concrete opportunity; yet having once 
experienced light and heat through our sense of 
Touch from this source, we thereafter have a 
definite knowledge of their abstract existence. 
We derive our light and heat from the Sun not 
because that body is hot, but because light and 
heat are effects of absolute motion ; motion being 
the sequence of a greater law. 

Our electric cars carry us to our business or 
pleasure, not because they are hauled along by 
some material connection, but because they reply 
to the expression of a natural law. 



SENSE IN MAN IS LAW IN NATURE. I 5 

The word Sense may therefore be defined as the 
operation of those natural laws whereby we are 
cognizant of an existence, and our benefits or 
injuries therefrom. 

The loss of any particular one of the senses is 
always more or less compensated for in an intensi- 
fied action of the remainder; thus, we have the 
secret of the best advantage of the full possession 
of our senses by well-regulated exercise of them in 
totality. 

The sense of Sight is a continuation of our day- 
light and darkness — our night and day in nature. 
The sense of Smell is the same with reference to 
the refulgent circulations of nature's vegetation, 
and safeguard from her temporary stagnations. 
Likewise w r ith the sense of Touch, which is a 
repetition of our frigid, torrid and temperate 
zones: of which "birds of passage" have the best 
advantage. The sense of Taste is the human 
continuation of the sweets, bitters and palatables 
of natural foods, and Hearing a continuation ot 
the stillness, disturbance and thunderings of 
nature in her searching for perfect harmony, which 
to her is only possible in constant change. 

In addition to being the consummation of all 
preceding laws in nature, man, as in the case of 
every other species in the onward evolutionarv 
scale, has added to him one more faculty or 
capability, in continued advance from the others: 
he is the only individual of mundane existence 
capable of abstract thought, and in this particular 
is he the ultinicite, the climax of nature's fruits. 



CHAPTER III. 

The Sixth Law of Nature and Responsive Sixth 
Sense in Man is Harmony* 

Man's subserviency, centralization and control 
of all preceding laws of nature are best unified in 
the word Harmony. It is the Sense or Law 
which, causing a modification of the other five 
senses or laws, acclimatizes him to new atmos- 
pheres, temperatures, conditions and countries. 
It is the expression of that Law which alone en- 
ables us to live and thrive in our North American 
climate; — the "getting used to" either one or the 
other as the seasons come and go. It is the law 
which is the mainstay of the boy while learning 
his unprofitable habits. At first attempts they 
make him sick, but after considerable practise, he 
becomes harmonized to them, often so thoroughly • 
that he cannot leave them off in later life without 
at least as much difficulty as he had in acquiring 
these habits in his youth. 

It is the sequence of this law which makes it 
possible to "tell me your company and I will tell 
you who you are," and "show me your books and 
I will see your mentality," etc. It is the silent 
and constant operation of this law which causes 



"USE IS SECOND NATURE," HARMONY. I 7 

people who have lived together as husband and 
wife so long under its immediate influence, some- 
times to be mistaken for brother and sister. 

It it the Law which causes a thing at first 
repugnant, to be eventually accepted and finally 
absorbed. 

Should you leave a clear atmosphere and enter 
a vitiated one, the smell would at first be offensive; 
but as you remained in it, you would by the 
gradual operation of this Law, become eventually 
harmonized to it, and if you made it your perma- 
nent abode, it would by almost unconscious 
degrees finally cease to be objectionable. On the 
other hand, you could stay in a comparatively 
closed up and stifled atmosphere all day until 
evening, and entering the fresh clear air you 
would begin to cough, expectorate, run at the 
nose and eyes, and clear yourself generally, until 
this Law of Harmony readjusted you to the 
change. 

If you were accustomed to a very dark room 
and changed suddenly to a brilliantly lighted one, 
you would at first experience very considerable 
pain ; but this Law would immediately operate 
and soon conform you to the new condition. If 
you were to leave a brilliantly lighted room and 
immediately enter a dark one, how densely dark 
for a short time it would seem to you, until this 
sixth Law of nature and responsive sixth Sense 
in man asserted itself, and you gradually saw more 
and more of the room and its contents; and if you 



I 5 NATURE LEADS IN LINES OF USE. 

stayed long enough you would almost forget the 
change. 

By the operation of this natural Law you can 
change from extreme heat to sudden cold, and at 
first it is very trying to your strength ; but the 
same Law of Harmony is again your support, and 
you gradually . feel the cold less and less, until 
finally you cease to notice this also. The same 
with the change from cold to heat ; how at first 
you perspire, until a little later you may even be 
surprised at your previous warmth. 

If you were accustomed to live on a quiet street 
and moved to a very noisy one, it would at first 
be very unpleasant; but after the Law of Harmony 
had done its work, you would notice it so little that 
remaining long enough and returning to your 
former quiet street, it is just possible that you 
might find the quietness unbearable. 

As the ideal of every natural law is utilitarian, 
and as they gradually ascend the scale of impor- 
tance, they become more and more useful to us 
when we comprehensively employ them to our 
advantage ; they may at the same time become our 
direst enemies if we misapply them or employ them 
ignorantly. We may by their assistance deny 
ourselves many essentials of physical existence for 
a surprising length of time; but what are the 
consequences? It is wise, therefore, and becoming 
in us all to be well-informed, and practise the things 
of benefit, and cease to practise and carefully 
guard against those things which are detrimental. 



19 HARMONY ENCIRCLES EVERY NATURAL POSTURE. 

The signification of the word Harmony includes 
the ideas expressed in Equipoise, Equilibrium and 
Equanimity, but none of these embraces or en- 
circles the complete ideal encompassed and cir- 
cumscribed by Harmony. 



CHAPTER IV. 

Origin of Peculiarities and Idiosyncrasies of 
Speech* — Dialects and Languages* 

The sixth Law of nature and responsive sixth 
Sense in man is undoubtedly the source of diver- 
sities in human speech. Each comparatively 
limited locality has its hard, fast and definite pecu- 
liarity as distinct and singular from every other 
locality, and as pronounced, as that existing in a 
more extended form between separate and distinct 
countries, races and nations. Differences of speech 
as recognized in different dialects, are absolutely 
the same essentially and in principle as those ex- 
isting between different languages. 

Language may be defined as, the means of 
communicating thoughts, ideas, notions and prin- 
ciples from mentality to mentality, through the 
media of vowels, consonants, punctuation and 
enunciation. Dialect, may be defined as the nat- 
ural local habit of changing the scholastically 
recognized and accepted sounds of vowels by 
lengthening, shortening or duplicating: omission 
augmentation or diminution of consonants: pecu- 
liarities of ejaculation and combination of words, 
which is essentially punctuation, and local char- 



DIALECTS ARE LOCALIZED AND INCIPIENT LANGUAGES. 2 1 

acteristical word-stress or emphasis, which is in 
principle enunciation. 

As such differences of articulation of consonants 
and sounding- of vowels, consciously or uncon- 
sciously employed in diverging- dialects, constitute 
a sufficient barrier to the free communication of 
thoughts, ideas, notions, opinions and principles 
between the permanent inhabitants of separate 
localities; so, in ages past, when people inter- 
mingled even less, and these differences conse- 
quently became more emphasized; they were the 
immediate cause of the difficulties known now as 
languages. And as men extended the circumfer- 
ence of their abodes from the central grouping, 
taking their locally acquired modes or habits of 
speech with them, which, by the Law of harmoni- 
zation of the human with his environments were 
continually modified, — according to the extent and 
direction of such change of habitation; we have to- 
day — "The Science of Philology, '* — more or less 
a trace of similarity or connection between some, 
most or all languages. We have in the English 
language, words from a number of other lan- 
guages, — yet we generally give them the English 
pronunciation and dialect twistings, which, to the 
student of hard and fast rules of speech, are often 
incomprehensible. Take as an instance the word 
"neither;" it gets the sounds in different localities of 
"neether," 'mother/' "nather," "nawther," "nyther," 
"nuther'' and "noother;" changes in its first syllable 
not mentioning the changes of its final syllable ac- 



2 2 NATURAL LAWS ARE IRRESISTIBLE. 

cording to the locality in which it may be used, 
which of course means among the common, un- 
educated, every-day people. 

Although the word ''neither" has been selected 
at random, and may not be the best; yet it suffices 
io indicate the difficulties possible in imparting or 
receiving thought through the channels of human 
speech, when so many diversifications are possible 
around each word. 

The sixth Law of nature and responsive sixth 
Sense in man is of course continued into and 
through the realm of sound. We unconsciously 
become harmonized to sounds which we are con- 
stantly hearing, and even if we intentionally and 
carefully guard against this tendency, the Law 
will to a measurable extent defy our best efforts. 
And, as in every other thing in line with this Law, 
the more striking or startling the change, the 
deeper and more lasting the impression. By the 
Law of unconscious sound-imitation, the child's 
organs of speech form to the sounds which he imi- 
tates, and gradually become, as he matures, so 
thoroughly harmonized to them in formal con- 
struction, that even after extensive travel and in- 
termingling with other people and languages, the 
place of his youth may be distinctly discerned 
through his utmost efforts to the contrary. 

Among the uneducated of fifty years ago, it is a 
remarkable fact that people residing the compara- 
tively short distance of five or six miles apart could 
not comprehend each other's speech without 



ASSOCIATION TENDS TO UNIFY HUMAN SPEECH, 23 

mutual effort and concession whenever it became 
necessary to converse together. 

The writer well remembers a football game be- 
tween two rival villages separated a distance of 
four miles, played by boys whose ages averaged 
about fourteen years. One of the desired bounda- 
ries in the game was a stone wall. An interpreter 
in the person of a man who had lived in both 
places was necessary, not only upon the pronuncia- 
tion of stone wall, but generally throughout the 
whole game; the boys of one village pronouncing 
Stone Wall "Stonn Wa," while the boys of the 
other village had it "Steuon Wo." There were 
unintentional difficulties occurring throughout the 
game which were unavoidable, because of the 
diversities of speech between the two villages. 

In conjunction with the foregoing, take the 
instance of a woman in one part of Scotland buy- 
ing wool for stockings; — enquiring of the sales- 
man,— "Aw Oo ?" (All Wool?) he replies, "Ah, 
Aw Oo:" (Yes, All Wool:) "Aw Ae Oo?" (All One 
W ool ?) "Ah, Aw Ae Oo:" (Yes, All One Wool:") 
and the business transaction is completed. 

The reader may be sure that as Edinburgh is 
famous for the purest English, this did not occur 
in Edinburgh; and he may also rest assured that 
this being the purchaser's only mode of speech, 
she would experience considerable difficulty in 
buying wool in a first-class store in Edinburgh. 

Establishment of schools and "chairs" of lan- 
guage have undoubtedly arrested the progress of 



s 



24 EDUCATION ASSISTS THE UNIFICATION OF SPEECH. 

dialects into persistent stumbling-blocks to the 
free transfer of thought. It is also logical to con- 
clude that if schools of language had been popu- 
larly instituted ages ago in India, for instance, we 
should not hear of so many languages as have 
developed in that country. 

Establishment of popular institutions in the art 
of speech may be sufficient to ready communica- 
tion of thought, but they can never be sufficient to 
annul the tendency to nation, state, province, 
shire, county, district, hamlet and village diversi- 
fication of speech. 

The constant tendency to differentiation of 
speech, constituting a consequent difficulty in 
transmission of thoughts, ideas, notions, opinions 
and principles, will ever remain operative; yet, as 
schools of speech become and remain common, 
there will be such a mutual effort between people 
of separated localities readily to comprehend and 
converse with each other, that the difficulties of 
the past will not extend with the same persistence 
into the future. Rapid, easy and cheap modes of 
travel will also assist in the same direction; so that, 
eventually, there will be one language on the earth, 
and that the best from all the past and present. 

Undoubtedly man's first language was the 
vowel, which being the musical part of the word, 
would naturally have his preference. As time 
rolled apace and his numbers increasing, it became 
necessary to consider other things than merely the 
affections of his fellows, he began to add the intel- 



THOUGHT AND SPEECH ARE CO-ORDINATE. 25 

lig-ible part of speech, — the consonant. For a long 
number of years words of one syllable were suffi- 
cient, as for instance, the majority of words in the 
ancient Chinese language. As men and races vied 
with each other in intelligence, two, three, lour 
and more syllables constituted a word. 

It would be as impossible to transmit the 
thoughts of to-day in the speech of the past, as it 
would for our ancestry of the grunting age — satis- 
fied with a kiss and a cabbage — to comprehend* the 
signification of our words, much more the 
thoughts which they clothe. The time-producing 
tendency to abstract thought and multiplicity of 
syllabic pronunciation, are mutually co-ordinate. 

The writer does not attempt to indicate any 
specific or approximate time for man's mundane 
existence: this may be left to the education, study, 
"discovery," or imagination of the reader. 



CHAPTER V. 

The Source of the Differences in Races of Men, 

Species of Animals, Plants, Degrees of 

Minerals, and Qualities of Soil* 

The law of associative and assimilative Har- 
mony is so definitely expressed in the human, 
that every part of the earth has produced origi- 
nallv and forms constantly, its own characteristics 
in its permanent residents, each particular part 
maintaining its own peculiar individuality in this 
respect. This Law of human harmonization to 
permanent residential localities is not only opera- 
tive between nations, countries and separate races 
of men; but it also continues between people of the 
same nation, country or race. Permanent resi- 
dents of each and every province, state, shire, 
county, etc., having their own particular build, 
carriage, manner, idiosyncrasy of speech, etc., dis- 
tinct and peculiar from each other. In the United 
States, we have our "Down Easter," " Westerner," 
"S'therner," "Bostonian," "New Yorker," etc., 
each having his own individual manner and 
peculiar speech; which distinctly proclaim him to 
the initiated as hailing from the extended "Ranch" 
or confined "Hub." 



EACH MUNDANE DIVISION FORMS ITS OWN SPECIES. 2J 

The sixth Law of nature and responsive sixth 
Sense in man, having already, in such a compara- 
tively short space of time, expressed itself as 
distinctly irresistible in so young a country as the 
United States, how much more emphasized must 
it be in older and longer-settled countries ! The 
African is the African, for instance, wherever we 
find him; the Englishman the Englishman, and so 
on with the remainder, whoever have been in their 
particular latitudes and longitudes the longest. 
Place an Englishman in Africa a sufficient number 
of generations, and he and his progeny would 
gradually and measurably change and assume 
more and more of the characteristics of the African, 
and eventually lose all semblance of the originally 
transmigrated Englishman, becoming, as the years 
rolled on, African pure and simple. Of course the 
same rule would be conversely true on the part of 
an African trans-acclimatized to England. 

Different countries, states, counties, shires, and 
even small towns and villages considerable dis- 
tances apart, have had their own particular 
pastime tendencies: Germany to instrumental 
music, Italy to vocal music, and France to the 
Drama. London in England was noted for its 
good singers, while Manchester remained content 
with its instrumental performers. 

It will not be a great stretch of imagination on 
the part of the reader to mentally scan the United 
States and discover and prove the permanent 
operation of the sixth Law of nature and respon- 



2 8 THE ENVIRONMENTS OF ATHENS FORMED ITS THOUGHT. 

sive sixth Sense in man, in our various centres of 
habitation. He can take as a general rule, the 
fact, that places of extensive levels form people of 
even tempered, comparatively slow and agreeable 
dispositions, not exactly sickly but nothing 
specially strong about them in any particular. On 
the other hand, he will find places of alternations 
of hills, hollows, valleys, vales and flowing streams, 
forming their permanent residents into a collection 
or accumulation of various dispositions; the people 
from the hills cheering the valley folks and the 
people of the valley returning quietness to those 
of the hills and as a consequence, a generally 
steady and moderately progressive people. 

When we find places like ancient Athens, for 
example, high, round, conical and withal of a dry 
and healthful atmosphere, we find the people cor- 
responding to the formation of such a place, 
towering physically, mentally, morally and spirit- 
ually above their surroundings, when not bound 
down by outside, foreign creeds and dogmas. 

Sometimes we find in history people who have 
been sufficiently great and progressive travelling 
to and superseding in art, science, philosophy and 
general learning, the people of some other place, 
but this has only continued a comparatively short 
space of time, until they have by the operation of 
the sixth Law of nature, degenerated to the con- 
dition of those they originally influenced. 

The sixth Law of nature changes man's physical 
appearance in addition to his speech, music and 



MOUNTAIN'S AND COURAGE ARE CORRELATED. 29 

pastime pleasures. The Highlanders of any coun- 
try are distinct and singular from the lovvlanders 
of the same country. There is a length and 
density to the limb, a spring to the step, a vigor in 
the speech, and a sprightliness in the music of the 
inhabitants ot the highlands which are entirely 
absent from the inhabitants of the lowlands; with 
their rounded forms, settled easy stride, calm, 
comparatively melancholy speech and musical 
minor scale; — all of which are caused by the same 
Law of harmonization with their environments. 

The writer well remembers of the country in 
which he passed his youth, that people living at a 
distance of not more than twelve miles apart, 
experienced positive difficulty in understanding 
each other's speech and were remarkably unlike 
even in their personal appearance: one hilly, 
irregular town forming its permanent residents 
into short, stubby, stout, rugged people, noted for 
their wrestling and rough-and-tumble fighting pro- 
pensities; while in the next town, forming part of a 
level district, the people were measurably taller, 
straighter, less contentious in their dispositions 
and generally a more even-tempered people; as 
if answering to the very formation of the varying 
parts to which they were congenial. The writer 
has also met Chinamen from different parts of 
China, who, after the completest mutual efforts, 
could not understand each other's speech, not- 
withstanding the fact that they were both educated 
in the same language/ in the same country, at 
about the same time. 



30 NATURE IS XO RESPECTER OF COMERS OR GOERS. 

As each and every country, by the operations 
of the sixth Law of nature and responsive sixth 
Sense in man, has a natural aptitude to repeat in 
new-comers the characteristic tendencies of the 
aboriginals of that particular country; the white 
man of the United States may expect that just as 
the Red Men were when he made his appearance 
among them, large, strong, and stolid: hating 
oppression and oppressors: loving freedom as their 
birthright, and delighting in a ki good time" gener- 
ally, so he will find himself in course of time, go- 
ing even so far as having the same notions of 
"The great spirit and happy hunting-grounds;" in 
fact, the careful observer ma)' already notice a 
disposition in that direction. 

The finest specimen of aboriginals in the writer's 
observation are those of New Zealand. In per- 
sonal appearance they are strong, evenly-propor- 
tioned, and intelligent. They are successful in 
most of the arts and callings of white men: farm- 
ing, cattle and sheep-raising; doctors, teachers, and 
members of the people's house of law-making rep- 
resentation. If the aboriginals of New Zealand 
are specially intelligent and the writer's claim of 
the sixth Law of nature and responsive sixth 
Sense in man is correct, in this instance, then, 
must the new-comers in those Islands be corre- 
spondingly clever. Clever they now are. There are 
in New Zealand some of the most intelligent people 
and laws in the world, which for lack of space can- 
not be here quoted. The fact may be mentioned, 



LAW IS THE WISE MAN S FRIEND. 3 I 

however, that every man, woman and child re- 
siding there is a joint and equal owner of the 
whole of the land: one of the brightest and most 
successful laws ever formulated anywhere in the 
line of "Land Laws." 

Man being the ultimate, the climax of nature, 
every principle of nature is repeated in him, and 
of course as he is the product of natural laws, 
everything in him is correlatively in nature, We 
find the same Sense of Harmony with environ- 
ments in rocks, animals and plants; — the Western 
horse, Arab steed, Ayrshire cattle, Leicester sheep, 
etc., are each and all familiar instances; and yet, 
observe that when these things have transmigrated 
to any part foreign to them, the original purity of 
their kinds and breeds can only be permanently 
maintained by repeated re-stocking at frequent 
periods; — this is of course dependent upon the fact 
that they re-harmonize with their new places. 

This sixth Sense, this Law of Harmony in man 
with his environments, is so hard and fast, per- 
manent and irresistible, that, if he is unacquainted 
with it he becomes its subject, but being conver- 
sant with it he has therein a servant good and true. 

A farm, a house, a certain room in that house, a 
particular place at table, the conversation, the eve- 
ning caller, each and all of which we must con- 
sciously or unconsciously become harmonized to 
if they are the best we are improved, if they are 
the worst we are influenced accordingly. Every- 
thing, every person and occurrence in life, have an 



$2 ENVIRONMENTS INFLUENCE HABIT. 

immediate and direct bearing upon us. Select 
well your associations physically, mentally, mor- 
ally and spiritually, must be the finest advice. 

Observe the face of the child or youth of the 
country place, how well harmonized it is to its sur- 
roundings; and on the other hand, observe the 
face of the city youth and notice what a difference; 
— the country face is open, clear, free, and lacks 
the suggestion of ''smartness" of the city face. 
Notice, also, how the human countenance changes 
to each occupation, each trade, business and pro- 
fession proclaiming itself in the face; this some- 
times following "to the third and fourth genera- 
tion." 

What kind of individual each particular locality 
forms, or what kind of person to expect from each 
and every division and sub-division of the earth, 
would no doubt be interesting study; but it is not 
the object of the present work, and the writer 
leaves it for others to indulge; deeming it sufficient 
to record the fact that man changes to his environ- 
ments because he harmonizes with them, making 
the remainder comparatively easy. 

Exactly on the same lines as the young lady 
leaving the vitiated atmosphere of her dress-mak- 
ing parlors, in company with the consequent slug- 
gishness of her internal organs, and proceeding 
to the mountains, where the conditions are clear 
and invigorating, and by lightness of mind, climb- 
ing, and other things part and parcel of mountain 
ife; she gradually loses her sallowness and assumes 



NATURAL LAW IS THE SOURCE OF RACES OF MAN. 33 

a ruddiness of health, which she could not possess 
in her closed rooms and comparatively quiet 
habits. By the operations of the self-same Law of 
human harmonization to environments, have been 
formed on the earth, during the ages gone by, the 
five distinct and separate races of men as we 
know them to-day, the white European, the black 
African, the yellow Chinese, the red man of 
America, and the brown man of India. 

As the young lady changed with her mountain 
experience, and re-changed upon her return, even 
so, has every race of man the same tendency to 
change by travel and intermingling, and re-change 
upon returning to their original abodes. All this 
is of course attributable to the eternal and infinite 
persistence of the sixth Law of nature and respon- 
sive sixth Sense in man. The greatest nations and 
peoples of history have been those who have had the 
most varied admixtures and blendings of different 
races, conjointly with the greatest diversifications 
of hills and hollows, valleys and vales, plantations 
and plains, seacoasts and seasons, islands and in- 
lets, rocks and ravines, showers and sunshines. 

Such a place is Great Britain, a heterogeneous 
conglomeration of ancient Briton, Roman, Dane, 
Saxon, Norman, Scotch, and Irish, who have at 
different periods settled on her shores for one rea- 
son or another. This in combination with the 
almost limitless varieties in the British Empire, 
makes and keeps her a great and progressive 
people. 



34 VARIETY IS THE SPICE OF NATIONAL HEALTH. 

All these things being- so much more empha- 
sized in America, — so many separate races on, and 
coming to these shores, our mountains and 
meadows, prairies and plains, landscapes and 
lakes, being diversified on so large a scale com- 
pared with anything known to history; we may 
expect to see on this continent the greatest people 
the world has hitherto known: this people to re- 
main in unified power until that day when, as a 
consequence of extensive increase of travelling 
facilities and better understanding, the whole earth 
will be united under one language and one law, — 
the brotherhood of man and personal responsi- 
bility: and this nation shall never be destroyed: it 
shall stand forever. 



CHAPTER VI. 

The Sixth Law of Nature has a Pre-Natal 
Influence Upon Man* 

The Law of humanity succumbing to sudden 
changes, physically, mentally, morally and spirit- 
ually, and, approaching them gradually, becoming 
harmonized to them, is strongly emphasized dur- 
ing pregnancy. 

One well-known instance of this fact is that of 
the woman going to answer a knock on her house 
door, and there meeting, and being startled by, a 
one-armed soldier; when her child was born he 
was minus an arm; the missing limb corresponding 
to the lost one of the soldier. 

If this woman had been a nurse in a soldiers' 
hospital, where she would have had the oppor- 
tunity of becoming harmonized to battle-field 
events, she could have brought forth children 
without such deformity; it was the suddenness of 
meeting the disabled soldier, before the sixth Law 
of nature had time to operate, w r hich caused the 
malformation. 

Many readers will remember instances of chil- 
dren born with "birth-marks;'' which marks, indi- 
cate the absolute closeness of the prospective 



$6 A PARENT MAY PRE-NATALLY SELECT HIS CHILD. 

parent and the child she is bearing. Marks have 
been placed on different parts of unborn children, 
simply because mothers have touched those par- 
ticular parts of their own bodies in conjunction - 
with there mental desires; thus clearly demon- 
strating the fact that the younger we are, the more 
are we subject to the Law of harmonization with 
environments and passing events. Instances 
have also been known of mothers desiring certain 
things to eat or to drink which they have not 
been able to procure at the desired time; and as a 
consequence their children have had strong han- 
kerings for those things all their lives. 

Students of human nature have consciously or 
unconsciously observed the potency of the Law of 
early association so closely that they have boldly 
and conclusively asserted, — "Train up a child in 
the way he should go: and when he is old, he will 
not depart from it," The same people, however, 
might have struck deeper soundings, and said, — 
"Parents, train yourselves in the way you wish 
your children to go: and when they are born, they 
will not depart therefrom. " 

It has been said that— "A good son is a joy to 
his father's heart: and a bad son, a shame to his 
mother/' And so must it ever be; we shall ever 
give birth to our inbred natures and cultivation: 
it is a case of "cat after kind;" we are absolutely 
subject to hereditary laws, no matter what our 
theories may be. Instances are in memory of even 
ministers of the gospel becoming the parents of 



THE SIXTH LAW OF NATURE IS THE MOLD OF HEREDITY. 37 

scoundrels; when the spirituality of such indivi- 
duals is truly awakened, they will understand and 
see that their children can only express the secret 
desires and lives of their parents. We cannot 
give birth to the child of another: it must of neces- 
sity be our own child; it is a question of "thy 
Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee 
openly " In the instance of a good son, let the 
parent take an honest pride: and in that of a bad 
one, let him bow his head in shame. Let the son 
practise and cultivate the good qualities of his 
parents, and let him struggle manfully against 
their transmitted weaknesses, and thus truly 
"honor" them. 

Instances often occur in which the characteristic 
dispositions of a grandparent are principally 
prominent in the child. This is because tbe 
parents, sometime at least, previous to conception, 
and during pregnancy, were cultivating nothing 
in particular, but living, so to speak, the life of 
their own individual birth: i. e., allowing those 
things to develop which they themselves had 
immediately inherited from their parents. This 
being for the time specified, their secret or deeper 
selves, John, Thomas or Susannah often "takes 
after" his or her grandfather or grandmother: 
sometimes distinctly indicating the characteristic 
inclinations of both. Thus nature demonstrates 
her power of self-preservation, and binds her 
"king" in an indissoluble matrimonial whole. 

"The king of nature" by right of kingship can 



38 CHILDREN ACQUIRE THE HABITS OF PARENTS. 

frame and pass his own laws: but nature by right 
of constituency compels his obedience to her will. 
Man has himself to credit or discredit for 
obedience or disobedience of nature's laws, and 
nature reposes in exacting subjection, allowing no 
excuse tor ignorance. She also allows her "king" 
the offspring he deserves, and only the offspring 
he desires when he is in Harmony with her 
honesty. 

What a judgment upon the father of the young 
and otherwise promising bank manager, who was 
transported for robbing his employers of a large 
sum of money. While the father strove to give 
the son a good education, he was unconsciously 
giving him another education. Among other 
things, while keeping a grocery store, the father 
taught him to place good apples in the bottoms of 
the barrels, and good ones at the top, so that at 
whichever end the purchaser opened he would 
not be apt to find bad ones; which were placed in 
the middle of the barrels. Thus the son not only 
inherited the possibility, but gained the experience, 
from practical example, which made it natural to 
rob the bank. 

The deeper parts of humanity are so subjective 
to this law of harmonization with surroundings 
that instances have been known in which pregnant 
women have seen daily, men, entirely different 
from and singularly better looking than their own 
husbands, and whose appearance they have 
naturally appreciated, and these impressions of 



GOOD INFLUENCES ARE PKE-NATALLY ESSENTIAL. 39 

admiration have been so strongly engraved on 
their mentalities that when their children have 
been born they have been pictures of the very 
men the mothers have consciously or unconscious- 
lv admired, 

Volumes might be written demonstrative of the 
law of harmonization with environments during 
pregnancy, all illustrating the importance of the 
mother having pleasant sights, sounds, smells, 
touches and tastes at such times; as all the five 
senses are centred in and directly modified by the 
sixth sense — Harmony. Let the prospective 
mother live in sight of harmonious and ennobling 
pictures, "scenes that are brightest," and land- 
scapes that are beautiful: the music of the finest 
expressed ideals: the unadulterated fruits of nature: 
with unvitiated breathings of the earth's atmos- 
phere: with even temperatures of the body, properly 
prepared food, well-regulated exercise and corre- 
sponding rest; and, above all, a harmonization to 
happy contentment; allowing no irritation to 
disturb her. 

Prior to the marriage of the late Dowager 
Empress Fredrick of Germany, she burned her 
right arm "from the elbow to the shoulder:" and 
after her marriage, and during her bearing of the 
present "Kaiser Wilhelm," she guarded the wen 
from human gaze more than she used the arm; as 
a consequence, these habits were pre-natally 
communicated to her son with such genetical 
effect that he correspondingly guards an almost 
useless or "withered arm" all his earth-life. 



40 PEASANT AND PRINCE ARE TO NATURE THE SAME. 

U A physician who attended the Empress 
previous to her marriage to the Crown Prince of 
Germany, afterwards Emperor, advances a curious 
theory to account for that withered arm. One 
day the Princess, while sealing a letter, set fire to 
her right sleeve, which burned to the shoulder 
before assistance came. 

There was left a permanent scar from the elbow 
to the shoulder, which the Empress always tried 
to conceal, just as her son does his withered arm." 

Because the mother did not use her arm, the 
same arm of her unborn child was "withered," and 
as she carefully guarded the "scar," the habit in 
force was transmitted to her son. 

One more instance, in confirmation of the 
importance of the foregoing, is that of the woman 
living near a very disagreeable neighbor with 
whom she finally exchanged physical blows; when 
her child was born the little vixen was only happy 
when she was miserable, and miserable when she 
was happy. Growing into womanhood, her whole 
life and conversation were in direct line with 
contention: she harbored imaginary wranglings, 
past, present and to come; so generally discon- 
tented was she that when she could not find 
unhappiness of any other kind, her resource was 
to speak of dead people and their buried troubles. 
If the woman who gave birth to such a child, as a 
consequence of these unhappy circumstances, had 
been accustomed or harmonized to similar dis- 
turbances, an extraordinary occurrence of the 



CHRIST DEMONSTRATED PRE-NATAL INFLUENCE. 4 I 

above description could not have happened. It 
was because she was constitutionally agreeable 
that the affair had so startling an effect upon her 
as to be the cause of so disagreeable an offspring. 
The same woman bore and gave birth to her 
next child in happy surroundings; and as a con- 
sequence, this second individual was extremely 
harmonious in his whole life and conduct, making 
friends so rapidly that he ceased to regard 
friendships as accomplishments, living a cheerful 
and generous life. 

The very pink of perfection of the power of the 
sixth Law of nature and responsive sixth Sense in 
man is seen in the circumstances surrounding the 
parentage, bearing and birth of Christ. Joseph, 
his father, and Mary, his mother, both naturally 
developed, fully informed, and comfortably 
situated, had their physical, mental and moral 
natures refined to such a degree of human per- 
fection that their Son was generically natural; the 
fruit of generations of regular physical habits and 
conditions: regular and healthful food, regular 
exercise in their daily duties and corresponding 
periodic nightly repose transmitted through the 
years, in a very healthful climate: the regular 
nursery education and habits of thinking of people 
in the middle station of life; regular moral intention 
and conduct, which was a consequence of expect- 
ance of reward for right living, and immediate pun- 
ishment for wrong-doing; one of the most spiritual 
atmospheres of the ages, during which it became a 



42 CHRIST WAS THE RIPE FRUIT OF NATURE. 

common habit to give "the first-born" or very best, 
to a soul-ideal beyond themselves. These were 
the environments to which Joseph and Mary 
became harmonized, and which made Christ 
possible. The mother's heart being so persistently 
aspiring, she could afford to give her Son the 
clean, pure, "immaculate" bearing and birth we 
read of; a naturally inherited tendency to things 
of the soul, with no bodily inclinations except in 
service of the soul. 

The harmonization to internal and external 
circumstances and conditions as expressed in the 
parentage, bearing, nativity and life of Christ, is 
one of the very finest expressions of the perfecting 
power of natural Law: and a great lesson to 
prospective parents, before conception, during 
pregnancy, childhood's training and full-grown, 
generous manhood. 

When parents fully comprehend the importance 
of the sixth Law of nature and responsive sixth 
Sense in man, they will be especially careful 
during these periods; and when they realize 
that a child is a replicate of their sub-surface 
selves, they will appreciate the momentous respon- 
sibility of parentage. 



CHAPTER VII. 

So-Called "Medical Science" is not in Accord 

with Natural Laws t and this is the 

Source of its Failure* 

As the intrinsic signification of the word 
"science" is, definitely arranged and systematized 
knowledge: and as medical men have not a single 
medicine that can be guaranteed to cure a single 
disease, absolutely without failure; so-called 
"medical science" is a misapplication of terms. 

The word science is synonymous with the word 
measure; i. e., ascertained fact, analytically and 
experimentally demonstrated, and classified in 
detail and limitation. 

A certain number of inches are proved and 
universally accepted as constituting one foot, a 
certain number of feet one yard, and a certain 
number of yards one mile; this is science of 
measure, and it never fails. A certain number of 
ounces one pound, a certain number of pounds 
one-hundred-weight, and a certain number of 
hundred- weights one ton; this is science of weight, 
and it never fails. A certain number of seconds 
one minute, a certain number of minutes one hour, 
and a certain number of hours one day; this is 



44 UNCERTAINTY IS THE ONLY MEDICAL CERTAINTY. 

science of time. By the triple science of measure, 
weight and time, we have a regular recurrence of 
night and day, spring, summer, autumn and 
winter; each spacial body maintaining its measured 
distance from every other body, each maintaining 
its own specific weight with reference to every 
other, and each performing its own particular 
revolutions in its own apportioned time. 

In medicine, however, nothing is so certain as 
uncertainty, and as a "science" it must ever fail; 
it has been weighed in the balance by its most 
eminent, scholarly and experienced professors and 
found wanting. John Mason Good, M D , F.R.S., 
•says: "The science of medicine is a barbarous 
jargon." Prof. Valentine Mott, the great surgeon, 
says: "Of all sciences medicine is the most un- 
certain." Dr. Abercrombie, Fellow of the Royal 
College of Physicians of Edinburgh, says: 
"Medicine has been called by Philosophers the 
art of conjecturing, the science of guessing." 

When the young man graduates from the 
"medical college, v he finds himself armed with a 
certificate to "practise," and a warrant of protection 
so long as "he keeps his head," and observes the 
tenets of his "education," which are, that so many 
diseases are "incurable," and all the rest are very 
doubtful. And no matter how great his failure, 
or what his "mistake," to repeat the words of Sir 
Astlby Cooper, the famous English surgeon: his 
"Science of medicine is founded on conjecture, and 
improved by murder." Also to quote Dr. Mar- 



EXPERIENCE ABANDONS MEDICINE. 45 

shall Hall, F. R. S., ''Thousands are annually 
slaughtered in the quiet sick room." 

As the graduate grows in years and experience, 
his confidence in drugs correspondingly weakens, 
and he subscribes more and more to the fruits of 
nature; while of natural Law his whole practise 
proves that he knows absolutely nothing. To 
agree with Dr. Benjamin Bush: he finds "The art of 
healing is like an unroofed temple — uncovered at 
the top, and cracked at the foundation." If the 
physician be strong-minded and honest, after he 
finds himself comfortably provided for, from his 
"long practise" or acquired position; in literature 
and in lecture he boldly proclaims the failures of 
medicine, and coincides with Dr. Talmage, F.R 0., 
who says: "I fearlessly assert that in most cases 
our patients would be safer without a physician 
than with one." Let us also hear Prof. Henle, the 
great pathologist and teacher, who says: "Medical 
science at all times has been a medley of empirically 
acquired facts and theoretical observations, and 
such it is likely to remain," 

The sixth Sense in man of becoming harmonized 
to external environments and internal conditions 
constitutes one of the insurmountable difficulties 
of "medical science." 

The patient's medicine is changed, not because 
the disease in itself requires such change, but 
because the patient has become harmonized to the 
first medicine. If, according to the doctor's 
theories, the first medicine is the proper thing for 



46 DOCTORS ARE INNOCENT OF NATURAL KNOWLEDGE. 

the disease, and does not in itself require the 
second one, and if the second one is antagonistic 
to the first, which it must necessarily be to coun- 
teract it, it is verily a vital difficulty; especially as 
it is caused by the operation of a natural law 
which cannot be changed nor resisted. Little won- 
der that Dr. VVakely says in the London Lancet: 
"A system of routine or empirical practise has 
grown up vacillating, uncertain, and often pilot- 
less in the treatment of disease." 

Owing to lack of acquaintance with natural 
laws, and their relation to man, the doctor makes 
the first mistake directly he is called to a case of 
sickness. By ordering the sufferer to bed, and 
placing him under the care of medicine, he first 
deprives him of one of his advantages in the sixth 
Law of nature,-nursing: second, the patient is gen- 
erally confined to a room which is insufficiently 
ventilated; and third, whatever will-force he 
might otherwise possess, to throw off the trouble, 
the sufferer is made to feel that "he is confined to 
his room and bed/' Next mistake is the "profes- 
sional nurse:" who stands between the sick one 
and many natural benefits; simply keeping the 
sick clean and regularly supplied with medicine. 
Thousands of cases, especially children, have been 
lost in this manner; being deprived of natural 
nursing, and the advantages generally, of the sixth 
Law of nature and responsive sixth Sense in man. 

In substantiation of the foregoing, how many 
mothers have taken their children and nourished 



REASON SHOULD BE THE AIM OF EDUCATION. 47 

them back to health, and to strength, after the 
doctors have completely and hopelessly tailed ! 
The. same between friends: and often by a renewal 
of the force of will and determination in the indi- 
vidual to be well; by striking out for himself, he 
has become re-connected with natural laws, from 
which the doctor (unknowingly) disconnected and 
temporarily deprived him. 

If education principally consisted of knowing 
how, and being able, to think, and medical 
students were expected to graduate in these 
methods; how much better it must be for a doctor 
to give his whole attention to healing the sick, 
than to give so much of it to politics, or any other 
thing in which there may be money or social 
aggrandizement. Surely there ought to be as 
much satisfaction in being able to cure a so-called 
"incurable disease," or even in the effort to arrest 
its injurious progress, as there can be in laying up 
dollars, in living in fine houses, or in being socially 
or politically lionized. Prof. S. M. Goss, of the 
Medical College of Louisville, Ky., says: "Of the 
essence of disease very little is known: indeed, 
nothing at all." And Prof. H. G. Wood, our dis- 
tinguished American writer, asks: "What has 
clinical therapeutics established permanently and 
indisputably? Scarcely anything." 

Notwithstanding the judgment of these men, as 
soon as a young man graduates in "medical 
science" he is open for almost any other remunera- 
tive engagement. 



48 DOCTORS ARE MORE MANNERLY THAN ABLE. 

"Society" has itself to thank for much of the un- 
soundness and inability of public men; there are 
many people so weak that if a doctor does not 
"recognize" them as they pass on the street, his 
professional ability is correspondingly lowered in 
their conscious or unconscious estimation. On 
the other hand, if he "salutes" carefully as he pro- 
ceeds, he is apt to be accepted as a "very nice 
gentleman," and to receive their highest approba- 
tion and recommendation as a physician. 

Notwithstanding the fact that a physician — in 
his working hours, at least — should live the most 
secluded mental life possible, the majority of them 
find it necessary to bow away all mental problems 
in street "recognitions," and all private abstract 
solutions in "social circles." These child-like 
notions of people make it impossible for weak- 
minded doctors to give their "failures" the mental 
attention necessary, as they pass from case to case, 
or to study in their private leisure, arrest of 
disease or permanent relief to "incurables." So 
long as doctors are aware of the habitual fancies 
of people in the above respects, we may expect 
"very fine gentlemen" in destitution of very clever 
physicians. There are remarkable exceptions to 
general rules which only assist in their establish- 
ment. One of these exceptions is Dr. Abernethy 
of London, who says: "Ther,e has been a great in- 
crease in the number of medical men of late, but 
upon my life, diseases have increased in propor- 
tion." 



49 THE CLEVEREST MEN CRITICISE MEDICINE MOST. 

Yet another difficulty between medical men and 
success in healing is in the fact thai they flit in 
and out from patient to patient, which is in direct 
line with the probability of carrying disease from 
one to another. Often we hear of a "complication 
of diseases having set in" with one or more of a 
doctor's patients: how did this originate? Has he 
not visited several kinds of disease that morning, 
in the sum-total of his "many patients," which in 
the aggregate would be a "complication!" Is it 
not feasible to conclude that the doctor is uncon- 
sciously responsible for the complication, and al- 
so, for the conveyance by the same means of much 
disease ? 

The most brilliant men have seen the hopeless- 
ness of medicine the clearest, and lamented the 
fact the most. Nevertheless, the completest con- 
fidence is placed in "the doctor," without refer- 
ence to his pedigree or antecedents, or even in- 
quiry as to the particular school of medicine of 
which he may be a graduate. 

Still another difficulty defying "medical skill" 
is in the fact that all medicine requires to enter 
the patient's stomach, and to pass from the 
stomach to blood, lungs and nerves. If, for in- 
stance, the drug intended to kill the disease in the 
kidneys only went straight to the kidneys, it 
might be logical to conclude that it would heal 
the kidneys; but when we know that it is neces- 
sary by the laws of digestion and assimilation for 
it to spread over and through every part of the 



50 DRUGS FAIL THROUGH ESTRANGEMENT FROM NATURE, 

vital organism, and only a proportional fraction 
finds its way to the kidneys, we know that it is at 
best but one more impediment in the way of 
"medical success/' If, according to medical 
theory, it is necessary to send to the kidneys an 
otherwise poisonous drug 1 , to allay the trouble in 
the kidneys; what effect has the major portion of 
that drug on the other divisions of the constitution, 
which it must assimilatively visit? If the legend 
that "medicine will make the sick well, and the 
well sick," be true, then the drug intended for the 
kidneys must make the well organs of the body 
sick. In fact, this is generally very evident in 
those under "medical treatment." 

Medicine was commenced in the time of Hip- 
pocrates, the Greek, more than two thousand years 
ago; and a great body of hypocrites have been 
"practising" it ever since. As it began on a false 
foundation, its difficulties have increased in conse- 
quence. It is only the minority who speak out as 
Sir William Knighton, when he says: "Medicine 
seems one of those ill-fated arts whose improve- 
ment bears no proportion to its antiquity." 

Man has suffered and lost in physical vigor in 
exact proportion to his encouragement and patron- 
age of medicine, and will recover as he ceases to 
encourage and patronize it. There is already a 
strong tendency in the direction and advocacy of 
natural health. 

The etymology of the word physician is to in- 
struct the sick as to the cause, cure, and preven- 



MEDICAL MEN ARE NOT LONG-LIVED. 5 I 

tion of their troubles: and that of the word doctor, 
to be licensed by the nation, state, or municipality 
to ''practise" medicine. There are many doctors; 
where are the physicians? 

It is a remarkable fact that no matter how vig- 
orous young doctors are, none of them maintains 
vigor to old-age. The medical stimulations in 
which they indulge are very evident while they 
are young, but the reaction is none the less sure as 
time rolls on and they advance in years. Dr. 
Hufeland, a great German physician, says: "The 
greatest mortality of any of the professions is that 
of the doctors themselves/' And Dr. Bigelow, 
formerly President of the Massachusetts Medical 
Society, says: "The premature death of medical 
men brings with it the humiliating conclusion 
that medicine is still an ineffectual speculation." 

Nature is mentioned in connection with medi- 
cine, and nothing known of the relation; to speak 
of "medicine assisting nature" is absurd; how can 
it be possible or necessar} 7 to "assist" that which 
is "eternally fixed" and perfect in its every pos- 
ture! If the physician's education cannot inform 
him as to what disease is in the abstract, how can 
he be expected to know what nature is, which 
includes life and death? 



CHAPTER VIII. 

Man may Habituate Himself to any Stimulant^ 
Medicine, or Poison, and Becoming Har- 
monized to its Conditions, It may be 
Thereafter Necessary to His 
Existence, 

In further illustration of the fact that man is 
governed by otherwise unseen laws and environ- 
ments of life, take the instance of a strong man 
suddenly entering wrong conditions, say, from the 
clear external atmosphere to a room full of the 
odors of offensive chemicals* Although other 
men, constantly employed in that place, may be re- 
ceiving little or no apparent injury from the sur- 
roundings, yet, as soon as this strong, healthy man 
enters, he at once recognizes the smell, and is some- 
times made instantly sick. The same man, by ex- 
tending the length of his periodical visits, could 
finally accept employment among the other men, 
with nothing remaining of the initial offence but 
the remembrance. This demonstrates the fact 
that it is better to obey law than to place com- 
plete reliance on brawn, limb or muscle. 

There is not a medicine, drug, stimulant, or 
poison in existence, to the conditions of which 



SUFFICIENT INOCULATIONS GUARANTEE IMMUNITY. 53 

man would not become harmonized if taken in 
suitably-adjusted quantities. Neither is there one 
of these agents which would not become a neces- 
sity to him after a thoroughly assimilative har- 
monization. A person in ordinary health and 
strength taking a sufficiently large dose of alco- 
hol, for instance, would undoubtedly succumb to 
its effects if he were not previously accustomed 
to it; and yet such a one gradually indulging in 
alcoholic beverage, stimulation, or anaesthesia, 
may ultimately become the slave of such concoc- 
tion. It is also possible for anyone totally unac- 
customed to the use of tobacco to take so much 
the first time that it may be the direct means of 
ending his physical life: and yet as before, the 
same person cultivating the habit by degrees, 
would eventually find it a necessity to his tem- 
poral contentment. Of course, the way is always 
open to the original condition, by the continued 
operation of the same Law and reversed individual 
action. 

A man or an animal may be inoculated or vacci- 
nated with the virus of any disease, and become 
immune from its injurious effects if such inocula- 
tion or vaccination be approached by degrees 
sufficiently small; and if suitable periods of time 
intervene between each injection to allow the 
sixth Law of nature and responsive sixth Sense in 
man time to harmonize. This man or this animal 
being finally harmonized to the particular disease 
in question, other men and other animals may be 



54 THE HOUSE-FLY IS THE INVALID'S FRIEND. 

inoculated or vaccinated from them, and becoming- 
harmonized to their disease-proof conditions, re- 
sistance to disease, in any of its stages, becomes 
practically unlimited. 

We screen our windows in summer to re- 
sist the entrance of the "house %;" whereas, 
if our homes were perfectly ventilated and 
free of vitiation, screens would not be neces- 
sary. The object of the fly in nature is to 
absorb, and be sustained by, impure atmosphere. 
It would not be an unnatural idea to allow the fly 
free access, and ventilate according to the num- 
bers entering. As small forms of life thrive upon 
conditions which would destroy larger forms; it is 
well to give the fly free entrance to assist in ven- 
tilation of homes: and, as the conditions necessary 
to the existence of large forms would starve and 
annihilate smaller forms; it is as well to keep our 
homes free from the vitiation upon which flies 
exist; and then, we may be free of the fly also. 

Nature asserts and protects her sphere by sim- 
ple laws, which it is very profitable to understand 
and utilize. 

The mosquito, for example, is found in low-lying, 
swampy, and malarial regions. Its first duty is 
to absorb and enjoy the malarial conditions of 
such places: second, to disturb and pester any 
human being who may visit its domains, and thus, 
to warn him of his danger: third, people living 
within a reasonable radius of its abodes of stagna- 
tion are periodically inoculated or vaccinated, to 



THE MOSQUITO IS THE FRIEND OF NOCTURNAL HEALTH. 55 

Avhich they gradually harmonize; and by such 
periodic harmonization, they eventually become 
immune from the effects of both mosquito bites 
and malaria. 

New residents in malarial districts are most sub- 
ject to the "mosquito pest," owing to their greater 
danger of contracting malarial conditions: while 
older residents, having become more acclimated 
by harmonization with malarial conditions and 
bites, will be troubled proportionately less; many 
permanent residents in such surroundings being 
absolutely immune from all discomfort. 

As it is a mistake to destroy the "fly" rather 
than the conditions which cause the fly; so is it 
with the mosquito; if man could destroy the mos- 
quito, instead of the malarial conditions which 
directly cause the mosquito, the malarial condi- 
tions would correspondingly increase in virulence; 
and thus, man would be the loser. 

As sunlight, circulation, and ventilation are the 
mosquito's enemies; so, the mosquito is most ac- 
tive and pestiferous at night, in swamps, and in 
places where the rain falls and settles, but where 
the sun's rays seldom or never penetrate: such as 
under large growths of trees, etc., and these are 
the places, and conditions, to which man should 
attend; and then, the dreaded mosquito will re- 
quire little attention. 

The nearer to nature and nature's fruits or 
products man allows himself to harmonize, the 
better for him. In nature's evolutionary process 



56 EVOLUTIONARY PRODUCT IS HUMAN SUSTENANCE. 

animal is next to man: therefore, animal food is the 
most readily digested and most nourishing man can 
have. Vegetable is next in evolutionary rotation: 
and therefore, vegetables are man's next best food. 
Fruit and water follow correlatively: these four 
being man's natural food, nourishment and re- 
freshment, the nearer he keeps to them; and the 
farther away from drugs, the better for him. 

Nothing but life can generate life. A chemist 
can analyze the constituent parts of a hen's egg y 
and formulate a recipe from which egg may be 
manufactured; but when he tries to impart the life- 
principle to the egg, so that live chickens may be 
hatched therefrom, he fails; and just as completely 
as he fails in this, he will fail in imparting that to 
the manufactured egg which will nourish or 
strengthen the human constitution, as will the 
naturally-produced hen's egg. The life-principle 
is not in the chemically manufactured egg: hence, 
it cannot impart nourishment. Nature reserves 
to herself this right; and no artificial substitute 
can ever be discovered. 

While nature's operations are infinite, she never 
repeats herself. There are no two bodies in space 
the same, although bodies are numerically limitless. 
There are no two leaves alike on all the trees 
growing on the earth. Of all the countless mil- 
lions of flowers which have grown, are growing, 
and shall yet grow on the earth, no two can possi- 
bly be alike. The same with each and every form 
or expression of life, continuing and culminating 



NATURE IS INFINITELY VARIABLE. 57 

absolutely the same with reference to man. Of all 
the men who have been on the earth, and all 
who are now on the earth, and all yet to come, 
no two can possibly be the replicate or fac-simile 
of each other. Everything and everybody must 
of necessity be varied from every other thing or 
person. Man "by taking thought/' or in the 
exercise of his utmost genius, can neither change 
nor vary one single part or parcel of life, ex- 
cept through and by natural laws. 

Nature never repeats: is ever varying: and by 
these laws alone, maintains the permanency of her 
sphere. "Variety is the spice of life" If this 
were not literally and intrinsically true, if nature 
did not absolutely persist in the supremacy of 
her domain, medical men in their shallow conclu- 
sions, and general short-sightedness, would have 
terminated human existence years ago. 



CHAPTER IX. 

Among the Many Innovations Consequent up- 
on the Imbecility of Medicine may be Men- 
tioned So-called "Christian Science;" that 
Culmination of Un-Christlike Ideas and 
Expressions* 

While Christ had his "Father in Heaven/' the 
instigator of ''Christian Science," Mrs. Eddy, has 
her "Divine Mind;" while Christ laid his hands on 
the sick and they recovered, Mrs. Eddy says, — 
"There is no sickness," and they suffer and die; 
while Christ lived among and suffered with the 
poor, Mrs. Eddy is chiefly concerned with the rich; 
while Christ's chief education was hi himself, Mrs. 
Eddy has her ideas and her principal words from 
another writer. 

In a book written by Andrew Jackson Davis, 
and published in the year 1861, entitled, — "Har- 
binger of Health," we find expressions precisely 
similar in import to the only intelligible words 
in Mrs. Eddy's book, which was published about 
fourteen years later. To the reader who has 
perused the writings of A. J. Davis, the claim of 
Mrs. Eddy to originality either in idea or in word, 



A. J. DAVIS MADE 'CHRISTIAN SCIENCE" POSSIBLE. 59 

is, to say the least, a surprise to reading intelli- 
gence. 

In the above work by A. J. Davis, page 44, we 
read, — "The truth is that, accidents excepted, the 
great majority of human bodily diseases are of 
mental origin." Mrs. Eddy has not equalled this; 
she has only repeated it 

In the chapter on "Mind and Matter" we read, 
— All "life is real" bondage to matter. Individual 
"life is earnest" in overcoming this bondage." 

"Matter is the mind's jailer." 

"The universe, with its beauties, and laws, and 
harmonies, is nothing to the idiot mind caged in 
matter." 

"The gorgeous heavens, with unnumbered sys- 
tems of suns and stars, are nothing to a soul bowed 
down by the daily drag of material necessities." 

"The fair sky of heavenly truth never covers the 
earthly mind." 

"The world of matter is the realm of discord." 

"The myriad forms of evil originate in the realms 
of matter " 

"The Divine Mind, whose infinite powers and 
principles fill all the temple of immensity, is seen 
by spirits." 

In the chapter on "Self-Healing Energies Better 
Than Medicines" we read ? — "Earthly language 
cannot embody all we have to impart under this 
head, in regard to the perfect adaptation and com- 
petency of man's vital energies, to self-repair and 
harmonize the bodily organs." 



6o MRS. EDDY ORIGINALLY IMITATED A. J. DAVIS. 

"As soul speaks to soul in the blissfulness and 
breathings of magnetic attraction, so the powers 
which live in all the cerebral centres and visceral 
organs meet and mingle together, like the angels 
in the garden of light, for the purpose of greatest 
good to the mental proprietor." 

"This fact, however, is of the highest signifi- 
cance; it teaches that the soul (which is the foun- 
tain offerees out of which the mind rises into en- 
tity from an elemental state) contains the conquer- 
ing and health-giving powers; from these energies, 
and not from medicines, the sick may expect re- 
lief." 

"Sweet and grateful breathings from invisible 
principles are cognizable only by means of the sen- 
sitive energies of mind." Like all practised plagi- 
arists, Mrs. Eddy has repeated the ideas ol A. J. 
Davis by twisting the language somewhat, and 
yet, the initiated may easily discern the copy. 

In the above selections from the "Harbinger of 
Health," it will be apparent that two things are 
mentioned, — the dominancy of "mind over mat- 
ter," and "The blissfulness and breathings of mag- 
netic attractions." When Mrs. Eddy first began 
to "heal" she adopted the example of A. J. Davis; 
she employed the "magnetic method," or "laying- 
on of hands." She informs us in her book, that 
after some time, she discontinued the magnetic 
method, and only employed "the mind cure." 
Some time after A. J. Davis gave forth the words 
contained in his books, he continued the practise 



EDDY PLAGIARIZED THE IDEAS OF DAVIS. 6 I 

of "magnetic healing." He afterwards graduated 
in medicine, and for some time practised "medi- 
cal, mind, and magnetic healing," at 63 Warren 
avenue, Boston, Mass. 

The reader will see by comparing the writings 
and work of A. J. Davis and Mrs. Eddy, that there 
is an absolute similarity between their ideas and 
words in writing: and that the only difference in 
the two methods of working was that A. J. Davis 
added medicine to his. 

u In recounting her experience as the pioneer of 
Christian Science, she states that she sought knowl- 
edge concerning the physical side through the 
different schools of Allopathy, Homeopathy and so 
forth, without receiving an} 7 satisfaction. She 
says that no ancient or modern philosophy gave her 
any distinct statement of the science of mind-heal- 
ing. She claims that no human reason has been 
equal to the question.'' 

If the reader will compare the last sentence with 
the one by A. J. Davis, commencing, — ''Earthly 
language cannot embody all we have to impart/' 
etc., he will at once observe the expert plagiarism 
of Mrs. Eddy, in twisting the words, while she 
adroitly copies the idea. 

Mrs. Eddy's success in duping the hypochon- 
driacs depends principally upon two things. 
First, she seems to non-readers of, but believers 
in, the Bible, to be in line with its teachings: 
second, her succcessful appearance of "originality" 
is due to the fact that the people she has duped the 



6 2 MRS. EDDY AIMED AT THE CREDULOUS. 

most are not likely to have read the works of A. 
J. Davis. His first work, "Nature's Divine Reve- 
lations and a Voice to Mankind/' was published so 
long ago as 1846. His ideas were not considered 
good and safe to peruse by the most conservative 
people of that time,, and they are so regarded to- 
day by many people. Mrs. Eddy seems to have 
read them, however, and by their assistance and 
people's confidence in, but unacquaintance with, 
the Bible, concocted with ease her deception of 
assumed originality. 

Mrs. Eddy had very considerable experience in 
writing prior to the publication of her book, and 
in her selection of its title she indicated her 
judicious discrimination in choice of words. The 
first word in her ''Science and Health with Key to 
the Scriptures, ,r seems to be intended to attract 
that large body of humanity who pride themselves 
on being "level-headed, " matter-of-fact people, 
who are not easily changed from any one mental 
position, but when once changed, do not easily 
change again; people who are "hard-headed," intel- 
lectually dull, and "set;" and who are ever proud 
of being styled "scientists." The third word, 
"health," seems to be designed to catch the men- 
tally sick, the people who are ever looking for 
"medical fads,"— the hypochondriacs — and the 
final words — "Key to'the Scriptures," designed for 
those people who cannot understand the plain 
English of the Bible, but are continually on the 
lookout for "keys." It also includes that great 



TRUE ETYMOLOGY IS A STRANGER TO MRS. EDDY. 6$ 

bodv of good folks who stand ready upon test to 
heartily endorse the whole of the Bible, but who 
seldom or never read it. 

The words "Christian Science," in the sense in 
which Mrs. Eddy employs them, are simply mis- 
leading Neither her work nor her ideas are 
Christ-like, and, therefore, neither can be "Chris- 
tian." Her information is not demonstrable, and, 
therefore, cannot be "Science." Her application 
of the words "Divine Mind" is also open to ques- 
tion. The word "Divine" in its broadest and most 
liberal sense, can only signify absolute knowledge, 
and the word "Mind" is even less complete in the 
signification assumed by Mrs. Eddy; taken in its 
true sense, it can but indicate a centralization of 
all the faculties of the brain. Neither absolute 
knowledge, nor centralization of all the mental 
faculties, includes, asserts, or suggests "The First 
Cause," "The Universal Source," of these and all 
things, which Mrs. Eddy would imply. 

In a book published in the year 1899, by Septi- 
mus J. Hanna, entitled, "Christian Science His* 
tory," we read, — "It is well known to every intelli- 
gent person in these days that Christian Scientists 
rely upon God, or Divine Power, for their healing, 
in every and any emergency, rather upon a human 
physician. It is well for disinterested people, who 
desire only to know the truth, to bear in mind this 
fact, and consider the probabilities and non-proba- 
bilities of the question in all its aspects." 

"People who desire only to know the truth," and 



64 "CHRISTIAN SCIENCE^ FORMULAS ARE IMPOSSIBLE. 

who always understood the Bible to contain the 
"truth/' would at first glance, "decide" in favor of 
"the probabilities of" Christian Science" being in 
direct line with the truth, and to some of such r 
this "decides the question in all its aspects." 

Mrs Eddy is said to have started out with the 
premise, — "All Causation is Mind, and every effect 
a mental phenomenon." Pretty; is it not? It 
might pass in dreamy, indefinite poetic effusion, 
Mrs. Eddy, but it will not stand in plain prose. 
"All causation" cannot be "mind,' r as mind itself 
has a cause. "Every effect" cannot be "a mental 
phenomenon/' as mentality is itself "a phe- 
nomenon." 

Abstract thought is subject to phenomena, even 
for which there is a cause. 

If Mrs Eddy's theories were what she would 
imply, they would read about as follows: — "God is 
a spirit: God being "Spirit," and "creating man in 
His Own Image," He "created" man's "spirit." 
In course of time, "man fell away from a true 
knowledge of God," or as Mrs. Eddy would re- 
peat with A. J. Davis, — The ''Divine Mind" — and 
imagining in his degeneracy that he required a 
body, he "created" one in his imagination. Of 
course, after creating himself a body in imagina- 
tion, he would quite naturally imagine that he re- 
quired some terra firma to sustain him, and so he 
created the earth in imagination. 

If Mrs. Eddy had said thus and so she would 
certainly have been "original" so far as Andrew 



"CHRISTIAN SCIENXe" DISAGREES WITH THE BIBLE. 65 

Jackson Davis is concerned; but as regards the 
Bible it could not have been true: for the same 
source from which her "original" fabrication would 
have been taken, reads, — "In the beginning, God 
created the heavens and the earth," and so on, and in 
another place, "God caused a deep sleep to fall 
upon Adam, and taking a rib from his side, made 
he a woman." The example, also, of Christ "car- 
ing for the multitude" by feeding them with 
material things, would certainly upset such con- 
clusions. 

Undoubtedly Mrs. Eddy saw this difficulty, and 
as a consequence, she and her unread and short- 
sighted followers ape something, which neither 
they nor anyone else can intelligently define. 



CHAPTER X. 

All Existence is Expressed in Four Things, 
— Body, Soul, Harmony, and Life* 

For the benefit of people who are apt to be mis- 
led by such as Mrs. Eddy, this chapter is written. 

Life, and all expression of life, is a great infinite 
Ouadrinity, — Body, Soul, Harmony, and First 
Cause. To know Soul would be impossible except 
through a knowledge of Body: to know the 
First Cause would be impossible except by and 
through a knowledge of Soul: and to know Uni- 
versal Harmony, a knowledge of the First Cause 
is necessary. 

Body is visible and tangible to Body, but Body 
cannot contemplatively encompass Soul. Soul is 
visible and tangible to Soul, and Soul alone can 
contemplate the First Cause. 

As Soul is thought and experience of Body, so 
Soul can grasp in contemplation the limitlessness 
of the First Cause. Body is limited, and subject 
to bodily environments; Soul is also limited, and 
subject to its own environments; but as we ap- 
proach Universal Harmony and more especially 
the First Cause, limitation is impossible. 

All bodies, expressions, or forms of life, are re- 



UNIVERSAL EXISTENCE IS A QUADRINITY. 67 

ducible and traceable to absolutely the same First 
Cause* 

Everything is the same thing in essence and in 
principle everywhere, differing only in degree, 
form, condition, or name. 

Body, Soul, Harmony, and First Cause, are 
each and all absolutely indispensable to their indi- 
vidual existence, and mutual knowledge and con- 
sciousness. 

In formulating this quadrinity of existence, one 
of the commonest expressions of modern philoso- 
phy has been used,— "The First Cause,"— but as 
this term is not sufficiently definite and precise, 
the word Life will be found more suitable. 
The word Life inclusively and comprehensively 
expresses abstract universal existence, encompass- 
ing and absorbing every known signification or 
attribute. The word "Absolute," signifying sepa- 
rate, independent, or unconditioned, is simply one 
of its attributes. The word "Supreme," as ex- 
pressing the highest, the deepest, and broadest in 
extent, is another attribute. The word "Eternal, " 
as signifying illimitation of time, another; — all 
Body and all Soul having limitation as such, Life 
ever remaining the same, without beginning and 
without ending. The word "Infinite," as express- 
ing an endless variety in and of species, is but the 
crystallized expression of its power of eternal 
variety in unity. 

Body, Soul, Harmony, and Life, being mutually 
indispensable and inseparable existences, except as 



68 SOUL AND CENTRE ARE SYNONYMOUS TERMS. 

comparatives; a full knowledge of one is absolutely 
impossible without a complete knowledge of the 
other. To absolutely comprehend a part is impos- 
sible without a knowledge of the whole: a knowl- 
edge of the whole necessitates a complete knowl- 
edge of a part. 

Body is expressed and encompassed by the 
forms in space: this individual earth, of which we 
naturally know most, its soil, in which we plant 
our cereals, its minerals (corals and crystals,) its 
vegetable and plant forms, its animal forms, and 
the human form. All that the physical eye can 
be cognizant of must necessarily have form, and 
be limited to, and encompassed by, the foregoing 
seven expressions or things. 

Soul is the centre of gravity, moving force, or 
ruling power, of each and every body or form in 
space, earth, soil, rock, plant, animal, and human. 

Life is the Absolute, Supreme, Eternal, Infinite 
Principle, to which all Body, and Soul, and Har- 
mony, are reducible or traceable, and which is the 
source of all expression and existence; the same 
Life- Principle in all Body, in all Soul, and in all 
Harmony, differing only in degree, form, condi- 
tion, or name; the same evolutionary and pro- 
gressive connection existing between Sun and 
Earth, Earth and Mineral, Mineral and Vegetable, 
Vegetable and Animal, Animal and Man, Man and 
Soul. The one is no more independent of the 
other in Universal Economy nor any more able to 
ignore or dispense with the other than can physi- 



HUMAN EXISTENCE IS DUAL AND INDIVIDUAL. 69 

cal sight with the physical eye, or any faculty of 
the Soul with the channels or limbs of the body. 
The foot cannot say to the toe: "I have no need of 
thee; thou dost exist only in my imagination;'' 
neither can the leg say to the foot, "I can dispense 
with thee;" nor the body to the leg, nor the brain to 
the body, nor the "riiijid" ignore even the toenail; 
all are mutually indispensable co-existences. 

Man has two things in himself to guard and pro- 
tect, — his body and his soul, — and two things out- 
side of himself to contemplate and enjoy, — Life 
and Harmony. These four things, — the individ- 
ual duality and the general duality, — constitute 
the Universal Quadrinity of Life, and embrace 
man's whole study and comfort. He should not 
allow either the ideas, the dreams, the opinions, 
or the shallow imaginations of such as Mrs. 
Eddy, nor the miserable conclusions of her blinded 
followers, to change these hard-and-fast, every- 
day facts and principles. 

There is no longer any doubt as to the general 
summary of existence, that every Body has a 
Soul, and every Soul a Power within and superior 
to itself, which Power is properly named Life; — 
that which ever was, is, and ever will be. 



CHAPTER XL 

Electricity* 

Electricity has been another welcome innovation 
in confirmation of the failure of ''medical science." 
Especially is this evident when it is considered 
that " Electrical-Therapeutics, " strongest advo- 
cates are prominent members of the medical 
fraternity. 

The fact that electricity is employed in some 
places to destroy human life should be in itself 
sufficient warning to — "Be sure you are right, and 
then go ahead/' If it were not so serious a mat- 
ter, it might seem ridiculous to think that some 
men will advertise and advise the self-same thing 
for man's physical welfare that others are practis- 
ing to his destruction. 

This is the fact with reference to electricity. 

The medical men who advertise and practise 
electricity as a "therapeutic," try to persuade peo- 
ple to its use by saying that fct if electricity is ap- 
plied in a mild form, by an expert, there is no 
harm, but benefit to the human frame." This can 
only be "a mild form" of apology for its use, and 
is such a common habit of medical men, that they 
do not appear to notice how strange it must sound 



MEDICAL LANGUAGE IS OFTEN ABSURD. 7 I 

to those unaccustomed to self-contradictory lan- 
guage to hear — "Take this; it will do you good, 
and it will not do you harm." If it does you 
good, how can it be possible for it to do you 
harm? If it is possible for it to do you harm, how 
can it be safe to do you good? But such is 
general medical language, and the medicine is 
about as safe, and as definite, as the words em- 
ployed in its advocacy. 

The primary production of electricity expresses 
the destructive principle; it originates in storms, 
thunderings, lightnings and general destruction, 
and as it originates it terminates. It is not a 
product or fruit of nature, but a transitory discor- 
dant searching of nature^ for permanent harmony. 
Being essentially discordant in its action, it can 
only have corresponding effect finally or primarily 
upon man. Of course, it can make "a dead rat 
jump," a street car move along, and it can also 
place a force in a man's body, over which he has 
no command or control, and to which, when thor- 
oughly applied, he must be continually subject. 

As man is the product of natural laws eternally 
established, only similar things can come en 
rapport with him for his permanent or tem- 
porary benefit. 

/Anything harmonious in nature generates cor- 
responding harmony in man: anything discordant 
in nature produces relative discord in him. Any- 
thing discordant in nature is only transitory: any- 
thing harmonious is continuous. That which is 



J2 ELECTRICITY EXPRESSES DESTRUCTION. 

harmoniously continuous in nature is the cause 
and propagation of man's mundane existence. 
That which is transiently discordant in nature is 
the propulsion of man's transformation to a 
higher, deeper, broader, more advanced and bet- 
ter condition of existence; which is a freeing 
from physical coil, and an emergence into the life 
of the Soul; this process being a continuation of 
winter in nature, and its consequent spring and 
summer. 

The constructive and destructive principles are 
diametrics, and can neither be paralleled nor re- 
versed. 

Whatever will ultimately injure the human 
frame or constitution will have the same measur- 
able effect primarily. If two thousand volts of 
electricity applied to man will kill him, two hun- 
dred volts will injure him, and two volts will harm 
him. 

If life is upward and onward, and death is 
downward and backward, a single opposing grain 
of one will arrest correspondingly the progress of 
the other. 

Some might advance the old thread-bare theory 
that we can have "too much of a good thing," but 
this is not true; for what is good is always good, 
and what is bad remains bad. We cannot eat or 
drink more than enough of good wholesome food 
or beverage, any more than we can place more in 
a vessel than it will hold. Quality, and conditions 
under which food and beverage are absorbed, are 
at fault in distress, and not quantity. 



ELECTRICITY IS EMPLOYED TO KILL AND TO CURE. 73 

Just as electricity expresses the destructive 
principle, nature expresses the opposite, — the con- 
structive principle. The expression of these two 
principles is easily discernible in our "electric 
power-houses" on the one hand, and the centre of 
our solar system — the Sun — on the other. The 
expansion of coal into heat, and water into steam, 
to produce friction, from which electric motion, 
light, and heat are derived, simply expresses 
the principle of destruction. On the other 
hand, to produce or generate perfect motion, 
light, and heat, the Sun requires neither coal nor 
water, nor is friction necessary; the Sun being the 
immediate and constant cause of the formation or 
constructive possibility of these things. The one 
is artificial motion, light, and heat, and neces- 
sarily destroys to produce; while the other is 
natural motion, light, and heat, and imparts 
motion, light, heat, and life to more than one 
hundred and fifty other bodies in its system. 

Man's life would not be possible on the earth 
without the life-imparting power of the Sun; while 
electricity is by some employed to destroy his 
earth-life. These facts alone, ought to be sufficient 
to cause a halt, and a meditation, among the 
medical advocates of "electrical-therapeutics." 

It was once said that the Sun is "a great ball of 
fire, originally placed in the heavens to give light 
and heat to the earth," and that "it can only be a 
matter of time when the Sun must burn itself out," 
and leave us all in darkness: while the earth de- 



74 IN HIS DESIRE FOR FACTS MAN LOSES PRINCIPLES. 

rived its motion from the theory that "it was origi- 
nally set in motion." In fact, there is a book 
written by one of the highest salaried and "most 
eminent astronomers" of to-day, — Sir Robert 
Ball, Astronomer Royal of England, — which 
enunciates the above theory as to the source of 
natural motion. The reader, however, may place 
such conclusions and their framers in the infancy 
of things, with the contentment that as these indi- 
viduals gradually develop from comparative child- 
hood of thought, they will correspondingly ap- 
proach natural ideas. 

Nature is ever producing, ever changing, but 
never destroying, and is all-sufficient for human 
health, strength and happiness. 

The boy enjoys his repast of peaches, which 
nourish and sustain him during the process, after 
which he plants the peach-stones in his garden, 
and long before he reaches manhood he has 
peaches galore to give to all his playmates and 
companions. Given sufficient space, and con- 
tinuing to replant successive crops of peach- 
stones, he may have peaches for each and all his 
friends' enjoyment, some for sale, and even go so 
far as to build each friend a house from the timber 
of all his youthfully planted peach-stones; this is 
but one of innumerable instances of natural or 
constuctive law, in contradistinction to artificial or 
destructive. 

Electricity, like medicine, being an artificial and 
not a natural product, cannot contain the Life- 
Principle, which nature reserves to herself; and as 
a consequence of artificiality, and disconnection with 
nature, electricity cannot be of benefit to health. 



CHAPTER XII. 

Hypnotism will Heal Hypochondriasis, 

Healing the sick by the sixth Law ot nature and 
responsive sixth Sense in man, has been, and is, un- 
consciously practised under such names as "lay- 
ing-on of hands," "magnetic healing," human 
magnetism," "massage," "vitapathy," etc., each 
name being coined as the other became unpopular, 
or as a consequence of different peoples's idea oi the 
same thing; for instance, "mesmerism" and hypno- 
tism," both the same in idea; the latter coming more 
as a consequence of the unpopularity of the for- 
mer, than as a necessity to change; Mesmerism, 
taking its name from a German named Mesmer, 
who practised it some length of time as a profes- 
sion, and hypnotism, from the Greek word 
"hypno" — sleep. Mesmerism, or as it is now gen- 
erally named, hypnotism, is a harmonization of 
two or more mentalities, and the influence pass- 
ing through the mentalities to the physiques. For 
convenience, we will suppose there are two per- 
sons, and we will employ the terms in common 
use. The "Subject," or the one to be hypnotized, 
must be perfectly willing, and become completely 
"passive" to the "Operator," or the one to place 
him in the hypnotic state. This passivity of the 



76 WE ARE OFTEN UNCONSCIOUSLY SELF-HYPNOTIZED. 

Subject to the will and desire of the Operator is 
one of the essentials of success; and according to 
the measure of abandonment of the Subject are 
the degrees of success in the harmonization of the 
two minds. 

Although we may hypnotize ourselves to any 
topic, environment, or individuality; yet, speaking 
generally, we cannot be hypnotized contrary to 
our desire. Still, along logical lines, it is only 
correct to suppose that there being a much 
stronger mentality or will-force, having a superior 
knowledge of hynotism or harmonization of two 
minds to one focus, and possessing sufficient de- 
termination to succeed; we may be hypnotized or 
brought to the same state of desire of such an in- 
dividual, unconsciously, without our consent, and, 
in this sense, against our will. 

When the Operator has the Subject under con- 
trol, it is natural to expect the Subject to do those 
things readiest which are characteristic of him in 
his normal or "waking state." Yet, in accordance 
with the sixth sense in man, while the Operator 
has the Subject under his influence, he may grad- 
ually and by repeated "operations'' finally cause 
the Subject to think, say, or do, things which in 
his original, normal or "waking state" were offen- 
sive to him; and having repeatedly thought, said, 
or done them in the hypnotic state, he will finally 
adhere to them in his natural state. 

The same law which applies to the Subject 
being most ready to think, say, or do, the things 



DANGER LURKS IN MISAPPLIED HYPNOTISM. 77 

chiefly characteristic of him in his normal state, al- 
so applies to the Operator. Being a well disposed 
person, it is but natural to expect him to harmonize 
the mental and physical temperaments of his Sub- 
ject to good thoughts, words, and deeds. But 
what if the Operator should not be a good person? 
Herein lurks a danger in hypnotism. 

The oft-repeated or long-continued subjections 
to hypnotic operations are, in their very nature, to 
the individuality of the Subject, retrograding; — 
but very good practise for the Operator at the 
Subject's expense. 

We should be careful to what we hypnotize or 
harmonize ourselves and by or to whom, we al- 
low ourselves to be hypnotized or harmonized. 
We should know in nature by a proper under- 
standing and cultivation of our senses, to what we 
are becoming harmonized or hypnotized, and we 
should know in life to what mentality or mentali-J 
ties we are becoming subject. 

We should know without doubt that the Opera- 
tor intends our weal, and not our woe; for verily, by 
the sixth law of nature and responsive sixth sense 
in man, we may gradually and unconsciously be- 
come hypnotized to any environment, physically, 
mentally, morally or spiritually. 

As hypnotism is only another term for mental 
harmonization (in contradistinction but not in dif- 
ference of principle to physical harmonization) it 
follows that hypnotism, as we know it to-day, is at 
least as old as man, though perhaps only studied 



78 HYPKOTIC FORCE IS THE ANlMAt/s ERIEnD. 

and treated as an abstract in recent years. In fact, 
whoever will observe the animal in nature will 
find that this particular faculty does not exist in 
man as a part of, a distinct, separate, and superior 
formation from, nature; but that it is in'man as 
the climax of all animal and other faculties preced- 
ing him in nature. Hypnotism, therefore, is not a 
growth or development of human intellectuality, 
but rather, a faculty of animal instinct, employed by 
animals for defence and offence; and generally 
speaking, the human being who may possess the 
"hypnotic eye'' the strongest, has real intelligence 
the least 



CHAPTER XIII. 

"Laying-On of Hands" Will Heal Surface 
Sickness* 

The fundamental law of success in healing the 
sick by "laying-on of hands" is dependent upon 
the health and harmonious proportions, physically 
and mentally, of the layer-on of hands; har- 
mony, in the sense here intended, signifying per- 
fect proportions of mental, motive, and vital tem- 
peraments and health, that subtle-something 
which is more an ultimate than a primate of the 
quality, kind, and quantity of our food, air, and 
beverage; indicated principally by a nut-brown 
color of skin, which latter is more an evidence of 
complete flow of life-force than of "sun-tanning" 
or "paint." 

We had a case in point recently here in the 
United States, of a Scotch Presbyterian minister 
who, while at home in Scotland, seeing his young 
niece in the agonies of neuralgia, "placed his 
hands upon her head and prayed that her pain 
might leave her," and thus healed her. 

Whatever may be said in advocacy of prayer, 
of the privilege of which the writer commends 
everyone to avail himself, it is not the object of 
the present work to say that the young woman's 



SO PRAYER IS GOOD: PRACTISE IS BETTER. 

pain left her because her uncle prayed, but because 
he "placed his hands upon her head/' and kept 
them there until the pain had gone. This was 
comparatively easy, as Presbyterian ministers 
are notably long prayers. 

Of course, the minister and his friends believed 
that the healing was in direct answer to the min- 
ister's prayer; but place a man less harmonized in 
his temperaments, and less healthy in his life-flow, 
in the same position, and let him pray; or even 
place this other man with his hands on the girl's 
head, and let the minister pray as before; we can 
only expect results not according to the sincerity 
or strength of the prayer, but according to the 
harmony and health of the other man. 

This minister, unknown to himself, had naturally 
two of the qualifications of a successful healer, by 
"laying-on of hands;" harmony between his, 
motive, mental, and vital temperaments, and super- 
abundance of health-flow, which latter was a se- 
quence of his previous good habits, healthful food, 
air, and beverage, in regular quantities. 
• Practising in Scotland, or in any other country, 
on a small scale, this minister might have been a 
success; but coming to the United States and pos- 
ing publicly on a larger scale, he was a compara- 
tive failure. The principal reason for this was in 
the fact that in conjunction with his temperamen- 
tal proportions and health, he lacked that power 
which is centred in size, proportion, quality, and 
skill- of the four essentials to a great healer he 



CHRIST WAS A NATURAL HEALER. 8 I 

lacked two, — size and skill; being only of medium 
build, and simply standing there with "his hands 
on the young woman's head praying. While 
Christ of old "mixed his spittle with clay and 
placed it on the eyes of the blind young man," 
this minister indicated no skill whatever, simply 
standing there with his hands in position. 
Another reason of the apparent failure of the min- 
ister's healing on a large scale was in the fact that 
the individual's power to heal is limited to the 
comparative difference between the well and the 
sick. After the strength of harmony of the 
healthy man has been given off to the sick, to the 
extent of becoming the same as the sick, the sixth 
Law of nature is in that case no longer operative, 
for it has reached its goal of perfect harmony. 
This Law is well illustrated in the case of "the 
woman who touched the hem of Christ's garment." 
Although Christ was in and among a concourse of 
people more or less healthy, heat once knew when 
the sick woman had touched him. He knew be- 
cause "virtue had gone out of him:" and the 
woman knew that "she was healed from that very 
hour," because she had exchanged her sickness 
with the specially healthful strength of another. 
Christ had up to the fullest limit all the essential 
qualifications of a great and successful healer com- 
plete. Large, healthy, proportional, and skillful; 
"He went about Galilee healing all manner of 
sickness and all manner of disease among the 
people." Should the reader have any doubt, or 



§2 THE CONFIDENCE OF THE SICK ASSISTS THE HEALER. 

lack of information, regarding the extremely 
powerful harmony possessed by this comparative 
"king among men," physically, mentall}^, morally 
and culminating in an extraordinary spiritual 
unfoldment, let him read the three chapters which 
follow this example, and be instructively satisfied. 

To understand that mind can harmonize wilhj 
mind, and thus assist in promoting physical health:{ 
read Matthew, eighth chapter, verses two and 
three, — "And, behold, there came a leper and 
worshipped him, saying, Lord, if thou wilt, thou 
canst make me clean/' Observe that this "leper" 
was willing and passive; and hence, in a receptive 
state, — "And Jesus put forth his hand, and touched 
him, saying, I will: be thou clean. " The health- 
fully harmonized man "touched" the leper so much 
in need of harmony, the mental desire and kind- 
ness of heart expressed in the words "I will; be 
thou clean," harmonized the two minds, "and 
immediately his leprosy was cleansed." Both 
mentalities were focused to one idea, and one de- 
sire, the touch unified the physiques, and the 
fruition was, what would otherwise have been an 
impossibility a "miracle," which is but another 
word for surprise or wonder. 

Immediately Christ's harmonious touch had 
started the localized disease to circulate through 
the remainder of the leper's body, and the two 
physical atmospheres reached the unit of harmony; 
the disease no longer existed, because it harmoni- 
ously circulated within its surroundings. 



MOSES INDIRECTLY TAUGHT FROM NATURE. 83 

In substantiation and explanation of the fore- 
going ideal fact, read Leviticus, chapter 13, verses 
2 and 3: — "When a man shall have in the skin of 
his flesh a rising, a scab, or Bright Spot, and it be 
in the skin of his flesh like the plague of leprosy: 
then shall he be brought unto Aaron the Priest, or 
unto one of his sons the Priests: and the Priest 
shall look on the plague in the skin of the flesh; and 
when the hair in the plague is turned white, and 
the plague is deeper than the skin of his flesh, it is 
a plague of leprosy: and the Priest shall look on 
him, and pronounce him unclean." In connection 
with this, read verses 12 and 13 of the same .chap- 
ter; — "And if a leprosy break out abroad in the 
skjn, and the leprosy cover all the skin of him that 
hath the plague, from his head even to his feet where- 
soever the Priest looketh; then the Priest shall con- 
sider: and, behold, if the plague have covered all his 
flesh, he shall pronounce him clean that hath the 
plague: it is all turned white; he is clean." Ob- 
serve that in verses 3 and 13 the disease is "white"; 
hence, the color of the disease is not a considera- 
tion, neither in the stages of the disease nor in the 
"cleansing." In the second verse, the plague is a 
ik bright spot"; i. e., the disease is local; there is 
only a small portion of his body diseased; the re- 
mainder is well; and one part of him being diseased 
and the other parts well, he is out of harmony 
with himself: — "and the Priest shall look on him, 
and pronounce him unclean." But in verses 12 
and 13, the plague having "covered all his flesh from 



84 "HEALTH IS HARMONY.'' 

his head even to his feet, the Priest shall pronounce 
him clean that hath the plague." Observe also, 
that he still, "hath the plague" but being harmon- 
ized to it" from his head even to his feet, whereso- 
ever the Priest looketh; he shall pronounce him clean 
that hath the plague." 



CHAPTER XIV. 

"Faith," — Confidence* 

"Without works," said one of old, "faith is 
vain " 

For example, we may "have faith" that a good 
fire will cook our breakfast, but without works" 
we may miss our morning's meal. 

Natural Law will operate and be still as potent 
whether man is cognizant of the fact or not. "A 
tree is known by its fruit: "The man is seen in his 
actions: "To obey is better than sacrifice: "Ex- 
ample is better than precept:" etc , all assist the 
indication that both nature and man's deeper con- 
ceptions of her, are practically utilitarian. 

Although confidence between the sick and the 
physician is of great assistance to heal; yet, to sepa- 
rate "faith and works" and thereby invent a sys- 
tem of "faith cure," is the fancy of the frivolous: 
and is neither true in nature, in reason, nor in 
sound sense. 

The healer gradually gains confidence in his 
power to heal from his experience in healing: the 
sick derives his confidence hi the healer's ability 
to heal from communicated or personal knowl- 
edge of that ability. 



86 LAW VARIES NOT AND IS THE SOURCE OF VARIETY. 

As discouragement and "low spirits" are gener- 
ally the accompaniments of sickness, causing an 
abandonment in the sick: to which, in health they 
are not inclined; so, anything from which they 
may borrow hope of relief, is by them immediately 
appreciated. Sometimes, so true is this, that even 
the cheering words of the powerfully confident 
have been known to restore the despondently 
sick. "Thy faith/' or, (which is better) thy confi- 
dence, "hath made thee whole;" is a case in point. 
But this is mostly true in imaginary mental mor- 
bidity, and not possible in real sickness. 

If a law is initially true, it is finally true: if it 
lacks solidity in any of its stages, it will eventually 
be found false. If the "mind" or "faith" will 
"cure" one real and one which is not an imaginary 
ill, it will rectify all: if it will not harmonize every 
human discord, it is not intrinsically true. If the 
mind or faith will even stop a bona fide toothache, 
it will recover a broken leg; but as it will not do 
either of these, the "mind" is not the supreme 
master of the truly sick situation. 

If we search the principal source from which the 
scheme of "faith-cure" has been concocted, we 
shall find that "works" have had more to do with 
"cures" than has "faith." Even where this fact is 
not specially recorded, we may rest assured that 
as natural law is the real source of health, and as 
nature is practical in every evolute, the "touch" 
is always prominentia these examples. 

When the son of the Shunamite woman was 



ANCIENTS UNCONSCIOUSLY COINCIDED WITH NATURE. 87 

overcome by the heat of the harvest-field, — "he 
said unto his father, my head, my head. And he 
said to a lad, carry him to his mother. And when 
he had taken, and brought him to his mother, he 
sat on her knees till noon, and then died. And she 
called unto her husband, and said, send me, I pray 
thee, one of the young men, and one of the asses, 
that I may run to the man of God, and come 
again/' When she had reached Elisha, to whom 
she hastened for help, he said to Gehazi his ser- 
vant, — "Gird up thy loins, and take my staff 
in thine hand, and go thy way; and lay my staff on 
the face of the child." 

Elisha knew from experience, as we, to-da3^ un- 
derstand it; that as contagion may be conveyed by 
an article of wearing apparel worn by the one 
diseased, so may some strength be transmitted by 
the "staff' of a healthy man. But finding that his 
staff was not sufficient to restore the sun-stricken 
child, — "he went up, and lay upon the child, and 
put his mouth upon his mouth, and his eyes upon 
his eyes, and his hands upon his hands: and he 
stretched himself upon the child; and the flesh of 
the child waxed warm." Of course, immediately 
the two bodies came in contact, the sixth Law of 
nature and responsive sixth Sense in man began 
to operate, and gradually transferred the compara- 
tive strength of Elisha to the correspondingly 
weak child: and Elisha feeling his superabundant 
physical force thus abated; — "returned, and walked 
in the house to and fro; and went up, and stretched 



S8 WATER IS ESSENTIAL TO HEALTH. 

himself upon him: and the child sneezed seven 
times, and the child opened his eyes/' After 
walking "to and fro" to throw off the attracted 
weakness of the child, and renew his own strength, 
Elisha succeeded upon his second effort in restor- 
ing the child. 

Absolutely on the same principle did the leprosy 
leave "Naaman, the captain of the host of the king 
of Syria," when he "went down, and dipped him- 
self seven times in Jordan, according to the say- 
ing of the man of God; and his flesh came again 
like unto the flesh of a little child, and he was 
clean." 

As water, in its various degrees of temperature, 
is the great natural solace for all sores, and as 
Moses of old instructed the lepers to "wash with 
water, and be (ye) clean;" also, as Thales the 
Greek philosopher said, "Earth from ocean comes, 
not ocean from the earth; the liquid holds the 
solid in its womb; the firm hard bones grow from 
the y ielding flesh; the flesh from flow of the more 
yielding water;" why was Naaman advised to 
"wash in Jordan seven times," and assured that, 
— "thy flesh shall come again to thee, and thou 
shall be clean?'' Because, by diving or "dipping" 
into the water and returning to the bank "seven 
times," he allowed the water-flow to renew itself 
each time, and also, as the cleared water periodi- 
cally cleansed him externally, the necessary 
exertion brought to surface the remainder and 
more internal portions of the leprosy. 



PRAYER GENERATES CONFIDENCE. 8<) 

Prayer being always good for the soul, and 
more especially if it generates confidence in deeds 
of kindness; Elisha "went in, therefore, and shut 
the door upon them twain, and prayed unto the 
Lord/' Undoubtedly, this imparted to him confi- 
dence to persist to success. 

Similarly in the example recorded of Elijah, 
who, while he "cried unto the Lord, and said, O 
Lord my God, 1 pray thee, let this child's soul 
come into him again;" did not neglect the practical 
part, — "And he stretched himself upon the child 
three times." 

Sufficient confidence to obey was imparted to 
Naaman from his servants, who "came near, and 
said, my father, if the prophet had bid thee do 
some great thing, wouldest thou not have done it? 
How much rather, then, when he saith to thee, 
wash, and be clean?" 

Excepting the examples already quoted in this 
book from those recorded of Christ in the Bible, 
we shall for the present pass by the remaining 
deeds of this king of healers, whose prowess in 
healing equaled his confidence, which confidence 
some hypercritical writers and speakers have 
dubbed "his extreme egotism," and come to the 
corresponding example • recorded of St. Peter, 
who said: — "Silver and gold have I none; but 
such as I have give I unto thee: in the name of 
Jesus Christ of Nazareth rise up and walk. And he 
took him by the right hand and lifted him up!' 

Peter derived his confidence, and his example, 
both, from the same great teacher, Christ. 



90 MIND HEALS MIND AND BODY HEALS BODY. 

If we are contending with the disease of hypo- 
chondriasis, "arise, take up thy bed and walk/' may 
be sufficient; but if the trouble is real and physical, 
we need to avail ourselves of the healing virtue in 
the sixth Law of nature and responsive sixth Sense 
in man. 



CHAPTER XV. 
Spiritual and Material Illustrations* 

A most beautiful example of the higher side of 
this natural Law is recorded in the fifteenth chap- 
ter of St. Luke— "The Prodigal Son." 

None but a parent may comprehend the joy of a 
father upon meeting his returning "prodigal son.'* 
The boy had been away, the father's yearning 
heart knew not where; there had been a breach, an 
inharmony between son and father, and the return- 
ing son's exclamation, — "Father, I have sinned 
against heaven" (harmony) "and in thy sight, and 
am no more worthy to be called thy son," would 
scarcely be heard by the father in his longing to 
"fall on his neck and kiss him, and say to his ser- 
vants, bring forth the best robe and put it on him; 
and put a ring on his hand, and shoes on his feet, 
and bring hither the fatted calf and kill it, and let us 
eat and be merry: for this my son was dead, and is 
alive again; was lost and is found." 

The examples, quoted in this chapter, of "The 
Prodigal Son," "The Lost Sheep," and "The Piece 
of Silver, 5 ' are fully expressed in a person meeting 
a sudden injury to any particular part of his body, 
and immediately hurrying to that part, physically, 



()2 "THE BROTHERHOOD OF MAN IS A MATTER OF GROWTH. 

and mentally, and soothing it back to harmonize 
with the remainder of his body as before it oc- 
curred. It is also expressed in the mother hasten- 
ing to the rescue of any of her suffering chil- 
dren, and remaining with that one, consoling, and 
nursing it back to its former harmony. The same 
ideal law is in action in the "sinner's return to 
righteousness/' and "more rejoicing over him than 
over the many who need no repentance." 

If these ideas had not a natural indication pri- 
marily, they could not have a spiritual signification 
ultimately; as there is nothing in spirit which has 
not been in nature, and nothing in nature which 
is not originally in Law. 

Many individuals of history have felt the neces- 
sity, and recorded the fact, of the ultimate cer- 
tainty of the great prediction, that "Every valley 
shall be exalted, every mountain and hill made 
low, the crooked straight, the rough places plain, 
and all flesh shall see the salvation of God." 

"Its comin T for aw that, an' aw that, an' aw 
that, when maun te maun shall brithers be, the 
the warld ower, for aw that." 

"The world is my country, and to do good is 
my religion." 

"A new commandment I give unto you, that ye 
love one another, even as I have loved you." 

All the foregoing are simply ideal expressions 
of the ultimate perfecting power of natural law; 
— as man learns to "Consider the lilies how they 
grow, they toil not, neither do they spin; and yet 



PROGRESSION IS ETERNAL. 93 

I say unto you, that Solomon in all his glory was 
not arrayed like one of these." 

In man's comprehension of, and obedience to, 
the many and varied laws of nature and responsive 
senses in himself, rests his rescue and final emanci- 
pation from the educated fear which dwarfs him 
from reaching out to perfect harmony with him- 
self, his place of abode — the earth — and his fellows. 
The full and complete understanding of nature's 
laws, — Sight, Sound, Smell, Touch, Taste, Har- 
mony, and responsive senses in himself. — will yet 
allow him to know of many natural blessings which 
his artificial "schooling" has kept from him. He 
will no longer be in the position of "The wind 
blowing where it listeth, and he hearing the sound 
thereof, but not knowing whither it cometh or 
whither it goeth." He will understand that it is 
simply the different densities of the atmosphere 
seeking harmony, in obedience to the sixth Law 
of nature; and, when any semblance to these things 
occurs to mar the comfort of his earth-life, he will 
learn to "rest his soul in peace" in the knowledge 
that when allowed to run its course: such phe- 
nomenon is only temporary. 

The physical and mental food of the child are 
its milk and its ''Santa Claus," but full-grown vig- 
orous manhood requires its roast beef and its 
reason. "Childhood," is only a comparative term. 
The greatest men of the past were but a predic- 
tion of the present, and the greatest of the present 
are simply a dream of the future. 



94 NATURAL LAW IS ETERNAL. 

The more man has advanced the more he will 
advance, and the more he will know of his natural 
privileges and responsibilities. "And he said, so 
is the kingdom of God, as if a man should cast 
seed into the ground; and should sleep, and rise 
night and day and the seed should spring and grow 
up, he knoweth not how. For the earth bringeth 
forth fruit of itself; first the blade, then the ear, 
after that the full corn in the ear. But when the 
fruit is brought forth, immediately he putteth in 
the sickle, because the harvest is come," 

" The earth bringeth forth fruit of itself"' so will 
the sixth Law of nature and responsive sixth Sense 
in man "'bring forth fruit of itself/' when the "seed 
is cast into the ground;" i. e., when the proper 
conditions are observed; when we cease to leave a 
sick person alone, and subject him to a treatment 
of drugs while at the same time, we deprive him 
of that which is his by natural and brotherly right; 
during the time he is unable to assist himself In- 
stead of leaving him alone, let us nurse him back 
to health internally, with the fruits of nature, ac- 
cording to his particular trouble or disease; — for, 
that which is the fruit of anything contains within 
itself the essence of that of which it is the fruit: 
and as man and the remaining products of nature, 
are from the same "Tree of Life," whatever we 
may give him which is best for his case, will come 
en rapport with him, and harmonize him inter- 
nally, while the external harmony we communicate 
to him from our own healthful atmospheres in 



HEALTH AND DISEASE ARE EQUALLY CONTAGIOUS. 95 

nursing, will impart to him a double prospect of 
recovery. 

It is a standing disgrace to the medical frater- 
nity to have so little practical aid from nature. 
And, as knowledge of natural law increases among 
men, it will yet be a disgrace to any home 
to have within its walls a sick person, except tem- 
porarily, as by accident. 

Man is hurried about by long hours work, and 
has not time to think; he pays the men who truth 
do shirk, and at his ignorance wink. He is not to 
blame for his lack of knowledge of natural laws; 
his employers, teachers, advisers, and "physicians" 
are to blame. 

In the sixth Law of nature and responsive sixth 
Sense in man, whereby good health is equally con- 
tagious with disease, we often, by even sitting on 
the seat of a public conveyance whereon someone 
has sat, who, compared with ourselves, was un- 
well, suddenly feel unwell, and becoming alarmed, 
we send for the "doctor," who orders us to bed, 
where we are liable to stay from one to six weeks, 
with a long after-sufferance of recovery from the 
injurious effects of drugs; whereas, if we knew that 
an occurrence of this kind is simply a borrowed 
condition, foreign to our individual atmosphere, 
which would pass off if we braced up, instead of 
succumbing, we would save ourselves from many 
so-called "sudden sicknesses." 

Just as a person may be saturated, surrounded, 
filled, or permeated with harmonious health, 



96' THE HEALTHFUL "TOUCH" IS "THE GREAT PHYSICIAN. " 

which makes us conscious of something from his 
presence, his clothing, his touch, as we enter his 
home: etc , which we cannot precisely define, but 
which we thoroughly enjoy; so it may be found 
with an inharmonious or "diseased" person; we 
may expect nothing but weakness as we approach 
or stay near him. Cases in point are recorded in 
St. Mark, chapter 6 and verse 56: — "And whither- 
soever he entered, into villages, or cities, or coun- 
try, they laid the sick in the streets, and besought 
him that they might touch if it were but the bor- 
der of his garment: and as many as touched him 
were made whole." The immediately foregoing 
is an example in point of the contagion of har- 
monious health; and for a supposed instance of the 
possible depth of contamination, consequent future 
contagion and spreading of disease, even sinking 
into the very material of a house: read Leviticus, 
14: 36 to 45: — "And the Priest shall command 
that they take away the stones in which 
the plague is, and they shall cast them into an un- 
clean place without the city: and he shall cause the 
house to be scraped within round-about, and they 
shall pour out the dust that they scrape off without 
the city into an unclean place: and they shall take 
other stones: and put them in the place of those 
stones; and he shall take other mortar, and plaster 
the house. And if the plague come again, and 
break out in the house, after that he hath taken 
away the stones, and after he hath scraped the 
^ouse, and after it is plastered; then the Priest 



"disease" is self-destructive. 97 

shall come and look, and, behold, if the plague be 
spread in the house, it is a fretting leprosy in the 
house: it is unclean. And he shall break down the 
house, the stones of it, and the timber thereof, and 
all the mortar of the house; and he shall carry 
them forth out of the city into an unclean place." 



CHAPTER XVL 

"Spiritual Healing," 

Among the names under which the sixth Law 
of nature and responsive sixth sense in man is un- 
consciously practiced to-day, is, "magnetic heal- 
ing.'' This mode of family treatment, and this 
name, came from "modern spiritualism," which 
dates its commencement to the year 1848. 

In their gatherings, the Spiritualists sit in a 
"circle," take hold of each other's hands, and sing 
a hymn. The contact of their hands harmonizes 
them physically, and the singing of the hymn is 
intended to assist in harmonizing them mentally. 
As they take their seats, a large person will sit 
next to a small one, a strong-looking one next to a 
weaker-looking one, and sometimes, so particular 
do they seem in the direction of perfect harmony, 
they alternate the positions of males and females; 
their hands being connected with each other, and 
their feet placed apart, so that the current of har- 
mony may pass uninterruptedly from each person 
to and through all. 

It will be easily seen that this habit or notion of 
Spiritualists is powerfully educative, and directly 
in accord with natural law; powerful, because the 



THE "CIRCLE" EXPRESSES A NATURAL LAW. 99 

people are in the most convenient positions and 
immediately connected: this in and of itself having 
a powerful effect in the direction of transferring 
the health of the healthy to exchange with the 
sickliness of the sick, and vice versa, according to 
the time absorbed in the "sitting," they both ar- 
rive at the same state of complete harmonization; 
educative, because, here is seen the very thing to 
do in our homes, or among our friends and neigh- 
bors in case of physical or even mental sickness. 
Sit in a "circle," connect hands, sing a hymn; and 
doing these things in the name and object of har- 
mony, there will harmony be in the midst, and 
there to bless. 

How much better this than that one of the 
family, having a little sickness, probably only tran- 
sitory in its nature, we should send for the doctor 
whose order puts the sick one to bed, there to be 
isolated from immediate assistance from laws in 
nature and corresponding senses in the human, to 
a drug treatment, and a possible funeral in the 
near future ! 

Let the physical inharmonies between the indi- 
viduals composing the circle be never so diversi- 
fied, each will have a tendency to harmonize with 
the other, which will be measurably successful 
with the time spent in the sitting. As they ap- 
proach the unit of physical harmony, they unitedly 
express one of the essentials of great and successful 
healing — size — and by the same law, that the 
whole circle becomes a unit of physical harmony, 
LofC. 



lOO SPIRITUALISTS HEAL BY NATURE^ METHODS. 

on an extensive scale, even so is it with the mental 
and moral natures, for the time-being at least. 

Thus we gain from a custom of the Spiritualists 
a true idea, and a practical example of family 
healing. There would, however, be a lack in our 
company treatment, the idea of which, again, the 
Spiritualists supply. They have a person set apart 
from the circle, who is in himself well harmonized 
in the essentials to heal; who goes from one to 
another to find anyone particularly requiring as- 
sistance; upon finding one, say, with a headache, 
or a rheumatic arm, he applies his individual skill 
to cause the life to flow through that head or limb, 
as the case may be, until, where there was a local 
congestion or temporary stagnation, all becomes, 
by the united forces, and this individual's assis- 
tance, harmonious. On the same principle, the 
healthiest, strongest, and most harmonious one in 
the family, neighborly, or friendly circle, could be 
appointed to manipulate the part or parts affected 
in the sick one, and thus specially hasten the re- 
covery. 

Notwithstanding the fact that Spiritualists claim 
all success in healing their sick directly traceable 
and dependent upon spiritual "influences" of the 
inner life coming in contact with their spiritual 
natures, and through their spiritual to their physi- 
cal natures thereby healing the latter; it is none 
the less a fact that even granting all this, it can 
only be done through and in obedience to natural 
laws. 



LOOK FACTS IN THE FACE AND LEARN WHERE YOU MAY. 1 01 

Absolutely the same laws govern in the life of 
the soul as control the life of the body: the princi- 
ple of law does not change or vary; it is.simply on 
a higher, broader, and deeper plane of advance- 
ment. 

The life of the soul is a direct continuation of 
the life of the body; and to speak of '-supernatural" 
is about as logical as to speak of superperfect. 

Of course, it is neither profitable, advisable nor 
necessary to ridicule anything: let us "gather up 
the fragments, that nothing be lost;" and, at the 
same time, allow none to wrong us in our birth- 
right as part and parcel of natural law. In our 
largest cities, there are hundreds practising the 
healing art, through their individual harmoniza- 
tion with nature's laws, and by the alleged assis- 
tance of "the higher intelligences." In the United 
States alone, there are thousands who would not 
have any other way of healing upon any consid- 
eration whatever. 

As the term "magnetic healing" has become un- 
popular, some have substituted "massage treat- 
ment," "vitapathy," "osteopathy," and so forth, 
which new terms will again be subject to change, as 
they in turn become unpopular: and hence, ob- 
noxious. However each wag may signalize a 
thing, or law, according to the density of his wag- 
gishness, let us not wrangle about names, but 
stand firm in defence of our natural rights. 

If we analyze the terms "magnetism," "mas- 
sage," "vitapathy,"and "osteopathy," we shall find 



102 NAMES DO NOT INFLUENCE LAW. 



that the framers of them had very vague ideas of 
the source of power in these methods of healing. 
Massage is but an effeminate fabrication for "lay- 
ing-on of hands," the terms magnetism, vitapathy, 
and osteopathy, are at least misleading to the unin- 
itiated. The word magnetism essentially signifies 
magnet or medium of some unknown power or 
force, in the act of healing: the word vitapathy 
must mean that there is supposed to be a "vital 
force/' or "invisible substance/' going from the 
healer to the sick, and thus accomplishing in the 
sick a restoration to health: and the word osteopathy 
that, from the spinal column to each and every 
physical function, there are nerve-connections, 
which are channels of communication between the 
brain and every part of the body. The cause of 
disease being either functional interruption, or 
nerve interference, or both: the osteopathist di- 
rects and adjusts the vital mechanism with his 
hands and without medicine. The reader may see 
that in essence and in principle, this practise is 
correlatively nothing more than "laying-on of 
hands:" "spiritual magnetism:" "massage:" or 
"vitapathy." 

Osteopathy claims a more extended knowledge 
of anatomy than its predecessors; this is simply 
owing to the fact that, the science of anatomy has 
advanced more and more as man's intelligence has 
unfolded, and osteopathy has necessarily availed 
itself of this progressive advantage. 

Neither has osteopathy in and of itself outgrown 



THE CLEVEREST PHYSICIANS FORSAKE PHYSIC. I 03 

the medical idea. The intelligent abandonment 
of medicine, is more a matter of human experience 
and development than it is of any particular indi- 
vidual, association of individuals, or "college" of 
any particular period. However, as we have 
herein seen and demonstrated that, healing the 
sick by the supposed "methods'' of "magnetic 
healing," "massage treatment," "vitapathy," and 
"osteopathy," is purely and simply the immaterial 
and eternally persistent expression of a natural 
law: it follows that should this theory of the sixth 
Law of nature and responsive sixth Sense in man, 
ever become "an exact science," which it cer- 
tainly must; then, it will be found that the terms 
magnetism, massage, vitapathy, osteopathy, etc., 
are wide of the mark as true and appropriate 
names. 



CONCLUSION. 

Little more remains to be said with reference to 
the topic of this book. As physiology is now 
taught in public schools, blank ignorance of the 
constituent parts of the human, and their different 
functions, will soon be a regret of the past: and, as 
a knowledge of the human constitution and its re- 
lation to nature's fixed laws, and a knowledge of 
the laws themselves, advance, man will yet be able 
to burst the physical bonds which have gradually 
tightened more and more around him, ever since 
the starting of the medical idea. 

Medicine was commenced separate from nature, 
it has continued separate from nature, and bids fair 
to reach its final separation from man as a part of 
nature, for it is a very unnatural thing. 

In the United States, we have known of won- 
derful healing by laying-on of hands, by people 
who really knew nothing of the law by which they 
performed these things. The so-called "magnetic 
blacksmith, " for example, who accidentally dis- 
discovered "a power of healing in his hands," 
knew not of its source, and did not assume to 
know. 

As an instance, on the other hand, of a man who 
misnames the law "vital magnetism;" read the fol- 



HEALTHY MAN IS THE NATURAL PHYSICIAN. 105 

lowing extract from an advertisement which re- 
cently appeared in a local paper. 

"The Vitapathic Healer's Glorious Record. 
1394 Chronic Invalids Relieved and Cured. 

It is true, it consists chiefly in laying-on of 
hands, but not in any haphazard sort of manner 
since every touch of the healer's hand is a scien- 
tific application of Vital Magnetism, the results of 
which are as clearly demonstrated facts as any es- 
tablished by Fulton, Morse, or Edison." The ad- 
vertiser proceeds to say: — "To compare these 
results of vitapathic science with marvellous heal- 
ing is no presumptuous exaggeration, since most of 
the marvels of scientific discovery appear little 
short of miracles, even in this the twentieth cen- 
tury." And he says: — "Think of the multitudes 
treated, crippled, blind and deaf chronic invalids, 
before an enthusiastic, sympathetic public as wit- 
ness and censor." And he further states: — "Most 
of these patients had been abandoned as hopeless 
cases by their physicians, and in numerous in- 
stances had gone the rounds of the hospitals." 

All the foregoing from a respectable and very 
successful American practitioner, whom the writer 
heard say in a public hall, before hundreds of re- 
spectable people, that he was a graduate of three 
different schools of medicine, and that thirty years 
previously, he had abandoned the practice of 
medicine, in preference to this more successful 
method of healing. 

What matters it if this man misnames his 



I06 CIRCULATION IS LIFE: STAGNATION IS "DEATH." 

adopted art "a vitapathic science," and claims it 
to be "a scientific application of vital magnetism, " 
or how much sand such individuals unconsciously 
cast in people's eyes; so long as the fact remains, 
that it is purely and simply the operation of a 
natural law, which is within the scope and reach 
of all! 

We have sufficient evidence on record, to know 
that people absolutely innocent of all knowledge of 
the source of this power, have consciously and un- 
consciously healed sickness by laying-on of hands 
in sympathy, and known sick people to have im- 
proved, as they, for a time, sat near well people. 

It seems proper to here remind the reader that 
there are two things to remember in connection 
with this plan of healing; i. e., the sick person 
throws off, and takes on, and the well person 
throws off, and takes on, also. This being true, 
the well person may take away disease and return 
health. 

Let the healer place his hands on the part af- 
fected in the sick person, and so soon as he feels a 
change come into them, which is not his own, 
draw them away in the direction of the feet or the 
hands of the sick person, rub his hands together 
until his own natural feeling returns, and repeat; 
until such times as he finds that he cannot cast 
away the feeling which he receives from the sick 
person, and recover his own, by rubbing: in that 
case, let him hold his hands under the running 
water faucet, until he feels the water naturally, 



EVERYONE SHOULD STUDY AND PRACTISE HEALTH; 107 

then dry them, and rub them together until they 
are warm, and proceed as before: and if he does 
not "weary in well-doing" ultimate success shall 
surely be his. 

When the healer finds the "virtue gone out of 
him," he must remember the example of Elisha, 
and "walk to and fro in the house,'* or do anything 
by which he may refresh himself naturally. 
Among the many obvious helps, a hearty drink of 
water, or a short "open-air bath," will be found 
beneficial. 

Above all things, the natural healer must be 
confident, and able, to cast off any condition what- 
soever, which may be foreign to his individual at- 
mosphere; constantly making it his object to main- 
tain the pink of perfect personal health; having 
encouragement in every difficulty, and satisfaction 
in every success; that he is simply the instrument 
or medium of natural law, and absolutely subject 
and limited to its harmonious environments. 
Never losing sight of the fact that, as sudden in- 
dividual contact with wrong conditions is im- 
mediately detrimental; so, sudden individual con- 
tact with right conditions is immediately beneficial. 
Knowing this to be true, he will readily compre- 
hend the great advantage to the natural healer of 
a superabundantly healthful atmosphere. 

As a very general rule, every physical trouble 
is a congestion, a "lesion," a nerve-"impignment," 
or lack of proper circulation in the part or parts 
diseased. The healer finding this to be the case: 



108 GENTILITY INDUCES HARMONY. 

as, for example, in goitre of the neck, or in local 
rheumatism, let him gently and soothingly manipu- 
late, knead and press the part, until he transfers 
to it a life-flow, by connecting it with the natural 
circulation of the remainder of the body; treat- 
ing it as. soothingly, caressingly, sympathetically, 
and gently, as he would a sore bruise on his 
own or his child's head, for it is an expression 
of the same harmonious law. 

The reader must ever be prepared to learn 
much and. many things from personal experience 
in healing, which for lack of space cannot be here 
detailed: he will not err, however, if he is always 
guided by the ruling principle: — the sixth Law of 
nature and responsive sixth Sense in man. 



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